Keycloak Experts in Austria
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Austria, who have recently used Keycloak
Kurt B.
Last position:
Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation at Fa. RCA, Rail Cargo Austria AG
- Backend / Microservices Developer, DevOps, Test Automation
- ~100 Developers, ~10 Teams, per Team: 1 PO, 1 ScrumMaster, 1UX, 1 Developers, 1 Tester
- .net core 8, 9, C#
- Microservices, Clean Architecture, MediatR, CQRS
- GraphQL, REST, SDL
- Azure DevOps, CI / CD pipelines, Azure Service Bus, Rabbit-MQ, Kafka, Azure App Configuration, Azure KeyVault, Azure Kubernetes AKS
- Splunk, dashboards, custom metrics, Elastic-Search, Kibana (ELK)
- Azure SQL Databases, Azure Cosmos DB
- Architecture decisions, event governance, COP (Backend, DevOps, FrontEnd, Test Automation)
- AI, Copilot, creating Test Templates
- Scheduler, Hangfire, Quartz
- Automated Unit and Integration Tests
- Automated E2E Tests, Playwright Test Automation, BDD, Gherkin, Cucumber
- Shipment tracking
- GIS, GPS data, geofence, geo search, position tracking, asset positions
- Jira, Confluence
- Focus on high-performance message-oriented architecture (~xx e6 messages / month / service)
- Structured logging, Serilog, OTel, Splunk, Application Monitoring
- Integration of different position data sources (GPS-based data) into AzureDataLake
Peter S.
Last position:
Lead Software Architect at Pritz IT GmbH
- Lead software architect in a greenfield MES project (Manufacturing Execution System / factory control system), responsible for architecture decisions, technology selection, and technical direction throughout the entire development lifecycle
- Designed and built the core framework from scratch, including several reusable Spring Boot starters (e.g., OPC-UA integration, messaging, security) that enable flexible composition of the individual system modules
- Introduced Keycloak as the central authentication and authorization system with SSO across all MES components
- Created and owns the full CI/CD pipeline covering Java, NPM and Docker – automating build, test, containerisation and deployment across all project components
- Set up the architecture documentation space in Confluence as the single source of truth for all architecture decisions, component designs, and integration patterns
- Defined and enforced naming conventions and coding standards to ensure consistency in the growing codebase
- Conducted regular code reviews for quality assurance, knowledge sharing, and adherence to architecture guidelines
- Created and maintained technology roadmaps to guide future development priorities and infrastructure investments
Alexander V.
Last position:
Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Architect at A.S.E. | Business Solutions for Construction
- Architected and deployed a highly available, multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for business-critical microservices.
- Designed and implemented a comprehensive Infrastructure-as-Code strategy using Terraform for managing GKE clusters, networking (VPCs, Subnets), and IAM policies.
- Engineered optimized storage solutions for stateful workloads (MongoDB) using GKE PersistentVolumes, enhancing performance and data resiliency.
- Established a full-stack observability framework using Google Cloud Monitoring, Logging, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Michael L.
Last position:
Software Developer at ProjektPro GmbH
- Optimized the performance of a large FileMaker solution
- Optimized performance in cloud and on-premise solutions
- Optimized the REST API
- Bug fixing and documentation
- Part of a large Scrum team
Jaroslav A.
Last position:
Child care, personal development and learning
René Z.
Last position:
DevSecOps & Kubernetes Engineer (Freelance) at mgm technology partners GmbH
Development of a Custom Jenkins Shared Library (Groovy)
Integration of security checks in CI/CD pipeline (Shift-Left Approach)
Automated vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows
GitOps-based deployments with ArgoCD
Semantic versioning automation with Git integration
Container lifecycle management (Build/Scan/Tag/Push)
ArgoCD webhook integration for event-driven deployments
Complete cluster automation with Ansible
Bare-metal Kubernetes installation from scratch
High-availability control plane setup
Unified deployment system for multi-application orchestration
Configuration management according to NIST SP 800-128
Host security: Linux hardening, SELinux/AppArmor
Network security: NetworkPolicies, micro-segmentation
Application security: RBAC, Pod Security Standards
Data security: Encryption at rest and in transit
Defense-in-depth principles
Certificate management with cert-manager
Secrets management with External Secrets Operator connected to Vault
Infrastructure monitoring with Checkmk
Prometheus/Grafana monitoring stack
Security event detection and logging
Automated health checks and incident response procedures
MetalLB load balancing for bare-metal
Nginx ingress controller with SSL passthrough
NetworkPolicies for security zones
Rook-Ceph distributed storage, CNI configuration (Weave Net)
Container & orchestration: Kubernetes (bare-metal), Docker, Helm
CI/CD & GitOps: Jenkins (Custom Shared Library), ArgoCD, Groovy
Automation: Ansible, Bash, Python
Security: nftables, RBAC, NetworkPolicies, cert-manager, Vault, Sealed Secrets
Monitoring: Checkmk, Prometheus, Grafana
Storage & networking: Rook-Ceph, MetalLB, Nginx Ingress, Calico
Collaboration: Jira, Confluence
OS: Debian, Ubuntu
Joseph W.
Last position:
Freelancer Cloud / Solution Architect (AWS) at A1 Bank
- I am responsible for providing solution architecture and technical assistance for a migration initiative aimed at transitioning to a new core banking system.
- The project involves replacing in-house development with a commercially available off-the-shelf core banking system operated as SaaS on AWS.
- Duties encompass solution design, technical coordination, supporting development teams, and providing IT support and troubleshooting.
- Managing over 10 global vendors and partners is crucial to project success.
- Technologies: VMWare ESXi, AWS, EKS Kubernetes, Mastercard Payment Transaction Service, Avaloq, A1 Telekom Austria infrastructure, CheckPoint FW, F5, Site-to-Site VPNs, PingID, Futurae SDK, Airlock, UC4/Automic, Firebase, iOS/Android lifecycle management, AWS IAM, AWS AppStream, AWS S3, AWS Transfer Family, QlikView, OpenAPI.
Andreas K.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant at Automotive/freelancer
- Infrastructure automation with Ansible, AWX, Docker/DockerCompose/Kubernetes, GitLab, Bash, Python (Ubuntu)
- Infrastructure monitoring with Icinga2
- Software development in Python
- Qemu, KVM, libvirt
Adrian I.
Last position:
Strategic Technology Leadership & Digital/AI Transformation at Adrian Ion Consulting
- VCs, investors & CEOs: build or scale technology development in your (portfolio) company
- CTOs & senior technology leaders: experienced sounding board
- Traditional industries: increase value or optimize operations through further digitalization and AI
- Young technical leaders: build your leadership skills, judgment on the technology-business connection, and strategic thinking while under pressure to deliver
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Statistics of experts using Keycloak
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
3.9 years
Positions per freelancer
12
Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Customer Service
Bachelor's degree or higher
63%
Master's degree or higher
38%
Doctorate
13%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 29 Oct 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology in Austria 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 Austria using Keycloak
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 29 Oct 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Keycloak 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%)
- Manufacturing (56%)
- Banking and Finance (44%)
- Automotive (33%)
- Construction (33%)
- Education (33%)
- Healthcare (22%)
- Insurance (22%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Identity foundation
Keycloak is an open-source identity and access management product for applications, services and APIs. It provides single sign-on, user registration, account management, identity brokering and centralised access policies. Teams can run it as a self-managed service and integrate it with existing enterprise identity landscapes.
Protocols and integrations
Keycloak supports OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and SAML, making it suitable for browser applications, mobile services and machine-to-machine communication. Strong specialists configure realms, clients, scopes, roles, groups and authentication flows. They also connect LDAP or Active Directory, external identity providers and custom user stores.
Typical delivery work
- Design realms, clients, roles and permission models
- Implement single sign-on across applications and services
- Connect corporate directories and external identity providers
- Protect REST APIs and service-to-service traffic
- Extend login flows, themes or providers when standard features are not enough
When expertise matters
Companies bring in freelance Keycloak experts during platform consolidation, cloud migration, application modernisation and API rollouts. Specialist support is also valuable when an existing setup has inconsistent realms, fragile authentication flows or unclear ownership of access policies. In Austria, teams may choose on-site workshops, remote delivery or a combination of both depending on security and collaboration needs.
Ecosystem and operations
Keycloak work often includes Kubernetes, Docker, reverse proxies, Java, Spring Security and API gateways. Professionals handle configuration as code, database connectivity, secret management, backups, upgrades and observability. They also plan high availability, session behaviour, certificate handling and recovery procedures instead of treating identity as a simple login component.
What strong specialists bring
A strong Keycloak professional understands both protocol details and the business rules behind access. They distinguish authentication from authorisation, keep tokens and claims purposeful, and test logout, session expiry, account recovery and failure paths. They document decisions clearly, reduce custom code where possible and explain operational trade-offs to security, product and infrastructure teams.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Keycloak? Start with the answers below.
Companies use Keycloak for centralised identity and access management across web applications, APIs, internal tools and customer-facing services. It provides single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, user management, identity brokering and role-based access control from one service.
Keycloak is self-managed and open source, giving companies direct control over deployment, data and customisation. Auth0, Okta and Microsoft Entra ID are managed services with different integration models and operational responsibilities, so the right choice depends on compliance needs, cloud strategy, internal capability and tolerance for running the identity layer.
A capable Keycloak specialist should understand OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, SAML, JWT validation and secure session handling. Experience with LDAP or Active Directory, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Spring Security, API gateways and infrastructure automation is often valuable as well.
The required depth depends on the scope. A simple client integration may need focused configuration skills, while a multi-realm enterprise rollout requires experience with identity architecture, migration, high availability, custom providers and operational recovery. Ask for examples that resemble your protocols, directory setup and deployment model.
Yes. Keycloak configuration, integration and documentation can usually be handled remotely when access, environments and decision-makers are organised. On-site workshops in Austria can still help with legacy identity discovery, security reviews and alignment across teams.
Bring in a Keycloak freelancer when an identity rollout is blocking application delivery, when the team lacks protocol expertise or when a migration carries significant access risk. An external specialist can establish a sound baseline, resolve integration issues and leave behind documented patterns for internal teams.
Freelancers working with Keycloak often move between identity design, application integration and platform operations. They may configure realms and authentication flows, review token claims, connect directories, write extensions and support upgrades while coordinating with security and product stakeholders.
Ask how the Keycloak professional would model realms, clients, roles and trust boundaries for your use case. Strong answers cover least privilege, token lifetimes, logout behaviour, recovery paths, upgrade planning, monitoring and rollback, not only the initial login screen.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects is 99 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 791 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects, 63% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 38% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Manufacturing (56%), and Banking and Finance (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Austria who have used Keycloak in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Operations (78%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Keycloak
Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
Countries:
- Germany
- Austria
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