Icinga Experts in Germany
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Jens R.
Last position:
Platform Architect & Senior Developer at Direct client, industrial measurement technology, medium-sized company
- Technical leadership across hardware, firmware, and software teams; scope: hardware/firmware team (4 people) and leadership group (5 people)
- Consolidated and documented a product family that had grown over more than 15 years and aligned it with CRA compliance — from the bare-metal I/O module to the cloud interface.
- Provided the most important customer product with the essential requirements and architecture documentation within two months — for a firmware landscape that had grown over more than 15 years. It now supports the customer’s modernization strategy.
- Established a monthly reporting line to the supervisory board and executive board within three months: nine meetings since 12/2025. The report itself is versioned and built from the CI pipeline; it is based on automatically collected activity and release data instead of assessments.
- Built a container-based CI/CD infrastructure from scratch: cross-compilation, host tests, and documentation builds in one continuous pipeline.
- Introduced declarative QA gates for DevOps and development artifacts — from the start using lefthook instead of pre-commit, executed in a dedicated container image.
Technologies used: arc42, req42, tpo42, docToolchain, PlantUML, ArchiMate, C4 model, ADR, C, C++ (GTest), CMake, Bare Metal (ARM Cortex-M3/M7), OCI containers, Jenkins, lefthook, Prometheus, Grafana, SBOM, CRA, OPC, SCADA, PLC integration, IPv6 migration, Zero Trust, Sociocracy 3.0, Cynefin
Vicenco K.
Last position:
ITSM Project Manager (self-employed)
Unified ITSM framework
- Definition of a company-wide ITSM target picture
- Introduction of a uniform service structure across all business units
SLA and OLA management
- Building a standardized SLA framework
- Definition of service classes (Business Critical, Standard, Low Priority)
- Introduction of OLAs between internal teams
- Building meaningful SLA reporting
- Definition of KPI and service dashboards for business units
Service portfolio management
- Definition of service descriptions
- If needed, preparing possible cost and service billing
Ticketing & processes
- Incident management
- Uniform ticket categories
- Standardized prioritization
- Escalation matrix
- Automations
- Self-service optimization
Request fulfillment
- Service catalog across all business units
- Approval workflows
Problem management
- Introduction of root cause analysis
- Known error database
- Problem review process
Complete asset management concept
- Hardware lifecycle management
- Software lifecycle management
- Leasing lifecycle
- Mobile device lifecycle
- Monitor lifecycle
- Phone lifecycle
Processes
- Procurement
- Goods receipt
- Inventory
- Assignment
- Return
- Disposal
- Leasing return Goal: single source of truth for all assets
CMDB design
- Definition of all configuration items:
- Workplace
- Notebooks
- Monitors
- Mobile phones
- Printers
Infrastructure
- Servers
- Firewalls
- Switches
- WLAN
- Storage
- Backup systems
Cloud
- Azure resources
- Microsoft 365
- SaaS services
Relationships
- User ↔ Asset
- Asset ↔ Service
- Service ↔ Infrastructure
- Location ↔ Asset
- Goal: make all service dependencies visible
Software asset & license management
- License management concept
- License balancing
- Compliance reporting
- Microsoft license management
- Adobe license management
- SaaS management
- Contract management
- Renewal management
Interfaces & automation Existing systems
- Workday
- Joiner
- Mover
- Leaver
TESMA
- Leasing data
- Contract data
Matrix42
- Asset synchronization
- User synchronization
Active Directory / Entra ID
- User management
Microsoft 365
- License assignment
- Group management
Dormakaba
Access processes
Lifecycle services
Monitoring platforms
- PRTG
- Palo Alto
- Cisco
Reporting & KPI framework
- Definition of a management dashboard
- KPIs
- Ticket volume
- SLA fulfillment
- MTTR
- First resolution rate
- Asset accuracy
- License compliance
- Change success rate
- Service availability
- Degree of automation
Network redesign support
- Governance
- Support of the network redesign from an ITSM point of view
- Definition of affected services
- Change management structure
- Communication concept
CMDB integration
- Recording of all network components
- Service mapping
- Dependency analysis
Validation of documentation and knowledge base articles
- Network documentation
- Operations documentation
- Standard changes
Monitoring & event management
- Target picture
- Central monitoring concept
- Event management process
- Alerting strategy
- Escalation model
Systems
Cisco
Palo Alto
Fortinet
Rubrik
Veeam
Matrix42
Azure
Microsoft 365 Automation
Ticket creation from monitoring
Escalations
Standard actions
Audit, compliance & information security
- ISO 27001 consulting
- TISAX consulting
- NIS2 preparation - consulting
- Audit-ready processes
- Documentation structure
- Evidence tracking in Matrix42
Roadmap
- 12-month roadmap
- Prioritization of all measures
- Quick wins
- Medium-term projects
- Long-term target picture
- Documentation
Matthias B.
Last position:
Windows Administrator at Telair GmbH
Windows Administrator, software deployment, user support, Azure / Entra administrator, hardware support, software packaging, defining and introducing processes
Tasks performed:
- Handling incidents, service requests & changes in the Matrix42 ticket system
- Handling / resolving incidents
- User creation / permissions
- Installation and patch management for Windows
- Permissions and license management in Entra
- Process improvement and documentation
Tools and methods used: Windows Server 2016 / 2019, Active Directory, Windows 11, Office 365, Azure / Entra, Ivanti, VMWare & ESX, Dell & Kyocera Minolta & Zeus hardware support
Florian K.
Last position:
LAN Planner at Global Network AG
- As-is assessment of the current network infrastructure and its documentation, including on-site inspections
- Independent planning of new distribution and main distribution rooms in the individual district offices (components used, rack layout, connectivity), considering the BSI IT-Grundschutz and InfoSic requirements
- Planning of new copper and fiber optic cabling, including patch panels
- Coordination with building services engineering (TGA) to ensure compliance with relevant on-site requirements
- Development of detailed execution plans and high-level concepts for the rollout of the new infrastructure
- Additional support after the components go live (hypercare phase)
- Regular communication with project management and client stakeholders
Matthias W.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Interhyp AG
- Infrastructure management with Puppet and Terraform for consistent environments
- Maintenance and adaptation of Terraform scripts for Azure cloud deployment
- Migration of database systems and services to the Azure cloud
- Introduction of GitOps with ArgoCD for fully automated deployments
- Adaptation and development of GitHub pipelines for CI/CD workflows
- Creation of Helm Charts for standardized deployments
- Migration of repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub
- Operation and performance optimization of an Oracle 19c grid cluster (RAC, Dataguard)
- Setup and management of MongoDB instances (on-premise and Azure Kubernetes)
- Setup of PostgreSQL clusters in on-premise and Azure Kubernetes environments
- Migration of services, master data, and stored procedures from Oracle to PostgreSQL
- Troubleshooting and performance tuning of complex data infrastructures
- Installation, configuration, and upgrade of Tableau in the productive BI environment
- Development of sanity checks to monitor business processes and application logic
- Adaptation of the backup and recovery strategy to new requirements
- Carrying out disaster recovery and point-in-time recovery
- Technologies used: Oracle 19c RAC Grid Dataguard, PostgreSQL 16, MongoDB, MySQL Cluster, Kubernetes (Azure), Tableau, Puppet, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub/Bitbucket, CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga2, Ubuntu/RHEL
Pierre G.
Last position:
Ansible Automation, Windows Third Level Support at DB InfraGO AG
- PRISMA project
- Ansible automation
- Windows third-level support for Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2013, Windows 2016, Windows 2019
Nab R.
Last position:
Freelance Senior IT Consultant at FourEnergy GmbH
Frank B.
Last position:
System Engineer at Frequentis Comsoft
- Migrate company software to RHEL10
- Development in Bash, Python, C, Ansible
Jörg K.
Last position:
Consultant Windows/Linux - Strengthening Cybersecurity
- Worked on projects aimed at improving the customer's IT infrastructure against current security threats.
- Windows Server (from 2008)
- Linux servers (mainly Ubuntu LTS)
- PKI
- VMware / vSphere
- Red Hat Ansible
- checkmk
Michael S.
Last position:
Application Operations at Hausbank
- Configuration and expansion of monitoring
- Setup of a monitoring test instance and inclusion of Windows and Linux servers
- Creation of documentation for the checkmk environment
- Handover to operations
- Administration, installation, documentation
- IT environment: Windows Server 2019, Ubuntu Server, Checkmk
Ursula R.
Last position:
Sabbatical with Training at Own Sabbatical
Michael P.
Last position:
Windows Client Engineer (120k users) at UniCredit S.p.A.
- Rolling out M365 in a complex environment
- Hybrid environments with Entra Hybrid Join and pre-provisioning
- Packaging with PowerShell Deployment Toolkit
- Troubleshooting / last-level support
- Co-management with SCCM
- Developing packages and scripts for Intune Autopilot
- Migration planning from network file shares to OneDrive / Teams
- Introducing user profile management with OneDrive
- Windows operating system design
- GPO design for the operating system and other applications
- Browser design and configuration
- OS upgrade planning (Windows 10 20H2-22H2 / Windows 11 22H2-24H2)
- Application lifecycle management / application ownership
Tobias W.
Last position:
External Contractor at Government Agency
- Project support for VMware/Active Directory
- Operational support for administration, process execution
- Creation and review of documentation
- Active Directory, Powershell, VMware VSphere 7, Confluence, Jira
- Windows Server 2016/2019/2022/2025 GUI/Core
- Concept and rollout of Windows Update Services (approx. 500 client/server systems) and takeover of a central WSUS gateway company-wide
- Takeover and redesign KMS/RDS systems company-wide
Bent-Ove G.
Last position:
KMS system integrator at Soorce Professionals GmbH
- installation and maintenance of communication systems on marine vessels
- advanced security checks
- building cluster environments using VMware ESX servers, DataCore, and Dell hardware
Lars K.
Last position:
Lead Drupal Developer at x-tention
- Lead Drupal 10 developer for several greenfield projects in the health sector
- Drupal architecture in a cloud environment
- Setup and maintenance of Gitlab pipelines and Kustomize scripts for Kubernetes deployments
- Development of Docker images
- Drupal custom module development for clients such as OAuth and FHIR
- Drupal frontend theming based on Bootstrap 5 and Single Directory Components
- Setup and maintenance of automated Playwright tests
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Statistics of experts using Icinga
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
1.7 years
Positions per freelancer
21
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Telecommunication
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
56%
Master's degree or higher
44%
Doctorate
8%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 9 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Germany are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts in Germany using Icinga
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 9 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Icinga experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Banking and Finance (67%)
- Telecommunication (67%)
- Government and Administration (56%)
- Healthcare (47%)
- Manufacturing (47%)
- Retail (47%)
- Insurance (44%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Monitoring foundation
Icinga is an open-source monitoring system for checking the availability, performance and health of IT infrastructure and services. It can monitor hosts, networks, applications, containers, databases and cloud resources, then raise alerts when defined conditions are met. Its modular design supports both focused installations and broad observability environments.
Icinga ecosystem
The Icinga ecosystem includes Icinga 2 as the monitoring engine, Icinga Web as the interface, and Icinga Director for configuration management. Icinga DB stores and serves monitoring data, while plugins extend checks for operating systems, network devices and business services. Specialists also work with REST APIs, DSL configuration, agents, Grafana and notification integrations.
Typical project work
Icinga specialists contribute to projects such as:
- Designing host, service and dependency models
- Migrating from Nagios or another monitoring solution
- Creating custom checks and alert rules
- Connecting Icinga to ticketing, chat and on-call tools
- Building dashboards for operations and service owners
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance Icinga expertise during a migration, infrastructure expansion or monitoring redesign. External specialists can reduce alert noise, standardize checks and establish reliable escalation paths without taking ownership away from the internal operations team. Germany-based organizations may also value professionals who can work on site when needed and communicate clearly in German or English.
Skills around Icinga
Effective work with Icinga reaches beyond writing checks. Strong professionals understand Linux, networking, DNS, TLS, virtualization and common database platforms. They may also bring experience with Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud services, Git-based workflows and service management processes. This helps connect technical alerts with operational action.
Choosing a strong specialist
Look for someone who can explain why a check exists, which failure it detects and who should respond. Practical quality shows in readable configuration, useful thresholds, tested notifications and sensible dependencies. Ask for examples of monitoring migrations, incident improvements or integrations, then verify that the approach fits your architecture, security model and team workflow.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around Icinga.
Icinga is used to monitor infrastructure, networks, applications and services. It checks technical conditions, displays current status and sends notifications when failures or thresholds require attention.
Icinga began as a Nagios fork but developed its own architecture, interfaces and data components. Teams often choose it for flexible configuration, Icinga Web, distributed monitoring and modern integrations, while Nagios may remain attractive where an existing plugin and configuration base is important.
Icinga work benefits from strong Linux, networking and scripting knowledge. Depending on the project, useful adjacent skills include Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, databases, Grafana, Git and incident management.
Icinga projects need different levels of experience depending on their scope. A simple check extension may suit a focused specialist, while a migration, distributed setup or integration programme calls for someone who has designed monitoring architecture and handled operational consequences.
Icinga is well suited to remote collaboration because configuration, documentation and deployments can be managed through shared repositories and access-controlled systems. On-site work may still help during infrastructure discovery, restricted-network changes or workshops, and language expectations should be agreed before the project starts.
Icinga focuses on checks, states, alerts and service availability rather than replacing every logging or tracing tool. It can complement metrics, logs and dashboards through integrations such as Grafana, giving operations teams a clearer path from a detected condition to a response.
Icinga quality is visible in meaningful alerts, clear dependencies, maintainable configuration and tested notification routes. Ask the specialist to explain failure scenarios, alert ownership, recovery handling and how changes will be reviewed before they reach production.
Icinga specialists should clarify the monitored estate, existing checks, escalation rules, access controls and deployment process first. They should also understand whether the work involves Icinga 2, Icinga Web, Icinga Director, Icinga DB, a Nagios migration or integrations with the client's wider operations toolchain.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 793 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects, 56% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 44% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (67%), and Telecommunication (67%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Icinga in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (92%), and Project Management (83%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Icinga
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