Longhorn Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Longhorn
Kersten L.
Last position:
Lead Architect / Lead Developer at Bettles: Sports Betting Platform
- Complete greenfield rebuild across the whole stack — built AI-native: backend in Go and NestJS, PostgreSQL (CNPG) on K3s with GitOps/Terraform; frontend on Angular 22, zoneless.
- Orchestrated coding agents (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) across the entire lifecycle — architecture, implementation, testing, reviews, documentation — driven by Specification-Driven Development (SDD).
- “Bruno” — LLM commentator persona backed by RAG and MCP for a personality that stays consistent across all generations (match previews, post-match reports, his own virtual bets).
Angular 22 (zoneless, without Zone.js), Claude Code, Claude Code Skills, CNPG, Cursor, Design Tokens (Spec for Code), Docker, Gherkin, Git, GitLab, GitOps, Go, Google Gemini, Grafana, Hetzner Cloud, K3s, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Lighthouse, LLM Integration, Model Context Protocol (MCP), NestJS, Node.js, NPM, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, RAG, REST, Specification-Driven Development (SDD), Structured Outputs, Terraform, TypeScript, Vitest
Vivekanandhan S.
Last position:
DevOps Consultant/Site Reliability Engineer at IONOS
- Manage multiple Kubernetes clusters in Production with Ceph as storage layer.
- Implemented CICD pipelines for automating deployments with Gitlab CI
- Terraform for Infrastructure provisioning.
- Claude code
- Helm charts for deploying via ArgoCD
- Implemented automated incident notification pipelines in Kubernetes to align with NIS2 mandatory 24-hour early warning disclosure rules
- Configured Azure Policy and Logging guardrails aligned with BSI IT-Grundschutz (SYS.1.3 / OPS.1.1), ensuring continuous baseline compliance across 50+ cloud workloads
Environment: Gitlab CI, IONOS Cloud, Ceph, ArgoCD, terraform, Elastic cluster, Grafana, Alert Manager & Prometheus
Michael R.
Last position:
Software Developer
- Automatic creation of reports based on log data from the Senstar surveillance camera software regarding access times for various camera systems
- Gathering requirements and translating them into a suitable technological solution
- Implementation of Python scripts to read, process, and convert Senstar log data into PDF reports
- Reading configuration files to control the scripts
- Packaging the Python scripts and all dependencies as an executable cmd. Offline installation on Windows Server
- Providing –help parameters to list and explain the script parameters
- Creation of documentation for installing, configuring, and operating the scripts
- Technical environment: Python 3, SQL, Senstar, Windows Server, Python Setuptools, fpdf
Marcus W.
Last position:
Administrator, DevOps at KZVB
- Planned and implemented new network infrastructure (VLAN, LACP, DMZ, structured cabling)
- Migrated from VMware to KVM using Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM), including CPU pinning
- Hardened the entire environment using SELinux (KVM hosts, container hosts, database servers)
- Configured and operated the virtualization platform with OLVM and Ansible-based provisioning
- Containerized and redeployed critical services: WordPress, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Subversion with Apache + AD integration
- Developed Ansible playbooks for automated deployment and configuration management
- Integrated Foreman for repository and security management in the DMZ
- Produced technical documentation in Markdown; organized in Bookstack
- Coordinated with external vendors (e.g. HPE) for hardware installation and setup
- Delivered all contributions documented and reproducible in Markdown
Ivan V.
Last position:
Senior DevOps Engineer at 58agents
- Provision Kubernetes infrastructure on Azure, GCP, or bare-metal at the hosting provider
- Design and implementation of REST and GraphQL APIs
- Cloud governance (cost, compliance, security)
- Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD as code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Container technologies (Docker, Helm)
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), Argo CD
- Deployment, scaling, and monitoring of microservices
- Distributed event streaming (Kafka)
- Message brokers RabbitMQ, MQTT
- Software development from scratch or further development of existing projects using PHP, Python, Go, C#, and Bash
Anton K.
Last position:
Head of Overall Technical Integration NSC / Hadoop Cloud Development at IABG
Head of overall technical integration NSC (National Secure Cloud, project with approx. 60 employees).
Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces and basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG platform.
Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) capable of creating private/mixed clouds of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.
CMP also includes the complete hardware management lifecycle.
Kubernetes, OpenStack and Hadoop are used as the foundation.
The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are configured automatically.
Private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop layer with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 additional ML/DL technologies.
Hadoop worker clusters can also be installed automatically without Kubernetes on bare metal or commodity hardware.
OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.
Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, DB.
Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, Rke2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3S), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).
Karl-Heinz G.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer / JEE Developer at EnBW
Further development of an existing microservice architecture (REST) for asset model management and runtime environment in the cloud.
Java development (BE) in the SCRUM team.
Java (Spring Boot/Security)
PostgreSQL
Docker
AWS Services (Lambda, Cognito, ECS, SQS)
IntelliJ
Kai H.
Last position:
Backend Python Engineer at Rohde & Schwarz SIT
- Conceptualizing & developing a need-to-know, domain-based identity and access management system in a high-security environment
- Backend development (Python): API & microservice development
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Statistics of experts using Longhorn
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years
Position duration
1.9 years
Positions per freelancer
14
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Top industries
Information Technology, Energy, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Human Resources, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
50%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
English, German, French
Speak two or more languages
88%
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 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 Longhorn
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.
Longhorn 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%)
- Energy (75%)
- Banking and Finance (63%)
- Automotive (50%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Aerospace and Defense (38%)
- Education (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Kubernetes Storage Layer
Longhorn is a cloud-native distributed block storage system for Kubernetes. It provisions persistent volumes through Kubernetes resources and stores data as replicated volumes across cluster nodes. Rancher Longhorn is the same project name often used in the Rancher ecosystem.
Resilient Persistent Volumes
Longhorn helps teams run stateful workloads without depending entirely on external storage services. It supports replica scheduling, volume attachment, snapshots, backups and recovery when a node or disk becomes unavailable. Applications keep a Kubernetes-native storage workflow.
Ecosystem And Tooling
Longhorn specialists work across the Kubernetes storage stack and its operational tooling:
- StorageClasses, PersistentVolumeClaims and CSI integration
- Replica zones, node scheduling and disk configuration
- Snapshots, recurring jobs and backup targets
- Rancher, Helm, kubectl and observability tools
When Expertise Matters
Companies bring in freelance Longhorn professionals when a cluster needs reliable stateful storage, a migration from local disks is underway or backup design has become business-critical. In Germany, this can support industrial, retail, software and hosting environments that require clear collaboration between infrastructure and application teams.
- Investigate degraded or detached volumes
- Plan upgrades, migrations and capacity changes
- Define recovery procedures and backup policies
Skills Strong Professionals Bring
Strong professionals understand more than the Longhorn interface. They can trace storage behavior through Kubernetes, Linux, container runtimes, networking and underlying disks. They also document failure domains, test restore procedures and explain trade-offs between replica count, performance, capacity and resilience.
Delivery And Collaboration
A Longhorn engagement may cover architecture, implementation, troubleshooting or knowledge transfer. Remote work is practical when cluster access, logs and runbooks are available, while on-site collaboration can help with hardware, network paths and regulated operations. Clear communication in English or German can be important for teams in Germany.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Longhorn? These answers cover the essentials.
Longhorn provides persistent block storage for Kubernetes workloads such as databases, queues and other stateful services. It replicates volumes across cluster nodes and adds snapshots, backups, recovery workflows and storage management through Kubernetes.
Rancher Longhorn runs inside the Kubernetes environment and can provide consistent storage across bare-metal, edge and mixed infrastructure. Cloud-provider volumes may offer deeper integration with one cloud, while Longhorn gives teams more control and portability but requires careful operations.
Longhorn storage work benefits from strong Kubernetes, Linux, CSI and container-runtime knowledge. Useful adjacent skills include Rancher, Helm, networking, disk and filesystem management, backup targets, monitoring and database operations.
Longhorn specialists should have practical experience with persistent volumes, replica placement, node failures and restore testing. The required depth depends on the assignment: a controlled proof of concept differs from operating critical stateful workloads across several failure domains.
Longhorn engagements can often be delivered remotely when secure cluster access, diagnostics and documentation are available. On-site work may still be useful for hardware installation, network troubleshooting or teams that need close collaboration in Germany.
Longhorn professionals should be able to explain replica scheduling, volume states, backup design and recovery actions in plain language. Ask for examples of failure testing, capacity planning and root-cause analysis rather than judging familiarity with the user interface alone.
Rancher Longhorn assignments often involve degraded replicas, unavailable volumes, slow I/O, failed backups or unsuitable disk and node settings. A specialist can isolate whether the cause sits in Longhorn, Kubernetes, the host, the network or the storage hardware.
Longhorn professionals should clarify the Kubernetes distribution, infrastructure model, backup destination, recovery objectives and access process before starting. They should also confirm how changes are reviewed, how incidents are escalated and whether the team expects English or German communication.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects is 90 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 723 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 50% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects are English (100%), German (88%), and French (38%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Energy (75%), and Banking and Finance (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Longhorn in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (75%), and Business Intelligence (63%).
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