NetApp Experts in Frankfurt
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Frankfurt, who have recently used NetApp
Kevin F.
Last position:
DevOps and Platform Engineer at DB Systel GmbH
- Error analysis and fixes including performance optimization of the in-house developed platform API
- Change and incident management in day-to-day operations
- Responsible for compliance with security and compliance requirements
- Vendor management for software development and maintenance
- Planning and execution of migration of legacy services to a cloud native platform
Role in the project: project staff, implementation team
Used skills: requirements analysis, IT service and application management, IT operations, error analysis and performance optimization, software maintenance and lifecycle management
Project environment: Cloud Native Platform (Kubernetes, Crossplane, AWS, ArgoCD, Grafana)
Mario P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Driss C.
Last position:
Freelancer – IT Service Manager at E.ON (Westnetz GmbH)
- Support and optimization of incident, change & problem processes based on ITIL for >10,000 users.
- Problem-solving for >1,000 complex cases/year across different service towers (File Services, Identity, Citrix, ANF).
- Work in the security cluster: vulnerability analysis and firewall change coordination.
- Governance & migration of file services to Azure NetApp Files (M365, Citrix, PowerShell), including data optimization.
- Creation and maintenance of business-critical process & operational services, enterprise documentation.
- Focus on stabilization, security (endpoint hardening), and optimization through AI solutions.
Tan P.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Team at Rise-World
- Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
- Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
- Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
- Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
- Database support.
- Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
- Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
- Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
- Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
- Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
- Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
- Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
- Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
- Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
- Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
- Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
- Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
- Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
- Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
- Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
- Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
- Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
- Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
- Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
- Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
- Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
- Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.
Peter V.
Last position:
IT Consultant at Evotec KG
- Operation and administration of Windows 2016 / 2019 servers and domains
- Infrastructure services (Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, Group Policies)
- Consulting, support and troubleshooting of customer systems
- Documentation and concept design in the area of MS Active Directory
- Updating operation, process and system documentation
- Ticket handling (remote analysis and resolution via incident, change and problem management)
- Technologies: Windows 2022, Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, GPO, VMware vSphere, CheckMK, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, Jira, Confluence, Office 365, Matrix42, NetApp, Ansible
Christopher E.
Last position:
Senior Oracle DBA and WebLogic Administrator, Oracle Business Intelligence for Applications
- Oracle databases 11g, 12c and 19c RAC
- Installation, configuration and deployment of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g & 12c (WebLogic, SOA, Oracle Forms and Report Server, etc., OBIA)
- Administration of Oracle 11g, 12c, RAC and 19c
- Applying patches
- Installation, configuration and deployment of Tomcat
- Oracle tuning
- The system includes several production, QA, test & development Oracle databases and WebLogic application servers 11g & 12c
Khalid A.
Last position:
Systemadministrator at Sport & Medien
- Processing 1st, 2nd and 3rd level tickets
- Analyzing, resolving and documenting incidents and service requests within incident and SLA management via KIX (OTRS) ticket system
- Monitoring and managing networks and servers, configuring network interfaces (Wallix & Zabbix)
- Providing user support for technical issues and onboarding to new systems
- Creating and maintaining documentation for IT systems, network configurations and processes
- Software installation and maintenance: installing, configuring and updating operating systems, applications and license management (Empirum, MS365, Admin Center / Exchange)
- Data backup and tape rotation (backup and recovery)
- Configuring antivirus software and applying security updates and patches (Matrix42 patch management)
- User management: creating, modifying and deleting user accounts and their access rights (AD / Azure)
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Statistics of experts using NetApp
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
26 years (Germany: 25 years)
Position duration
1.9 years (Germany: 2.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
23 (Germany: 21)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Customer Service
Top industries
Information Technology, Transportation, Government and Administration
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 71%)
Master's degree or higher
67% (Germany: 39%)
Certifications per freelancer
5 (Germany: 6)
Most common languages
German, English, Arabic
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Frankfurt are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using NetApp
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 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
NetApp 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%)
- Transportation (86%)
- Government and Administration (86%)
- Automotive (71%)
- Banking and Finance (71%)
- Healthcare (71%)
- Professional Services (71%)
- Food and Beverage (57%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Data platforms
NetApp provides enterprise storage systems and data services for workloads that need dependable access, protection and flexible scaling. Its portfolio includes ONTAP running on AFF and FAS systems, as well as software-defined and cloud storage. Companies use it for file, block and object data across data centers, private clouds and public cloud environments.
ONTAP expertise
Strong specialists work across storage design, cluster setup, networking, performance and lifecycle operations. They configure NFS, SMB, iSCSI and NVMe access, manage aggregates and storage virtual machines, and apply Snapshot-based data protection. They also understand upgrades, capacity planning, automation and operational documentation.
Ecosystem and tools
NetApp projects often combine core storage with services for replication, backup and hybrid operations.
- ONTAP administration and cluster configuration
- SnapMirror replication and SnapCenter protection workflows
- StorageGRID object storage for distributed data
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP and BlueXP management
- Automation through REST APIs, Ansible or PowerShell
Typical project work
Companies bring in freelance expertise for migrations, consolidation and recovery planning, especially when storage supports databases, virtualization or file services. Specialists can assess an existing estate, define a target architecture, execute a controlled migration and leave behind tested runbooks. In Frankfurt, this work may involve coordination with local data-center teams while daily collaboration remains remote.
When support matters
A company may need an expert when performance is inconsistent, a hardware refresh is approaching or replication has not been tested under realistic conditions. Other signals include growing cloud usage, fragmented backup processes or unclear access controls.
- Moving workloads between legacy arrays and ONTAP
- Designing hybrid storage with Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- Recovering from failed replication or backup procedures
- Standardizing storage operations across business units
Quality markers
The best professionals explain trade-offs in business terms and validate designs against recovery objectives, workload patterns and security requirements. They use monitoring data rather than assumptions, document dependencies and test failover without disrupting production. Look for practical knowledge of ONTAP commands, APIs, upgrades and the surrounding compute, network and backup environment.
Frequently asked questions
Key details about NetApp, drawn from the questions we get asked most.
NetApp is used to store, serve, protect and replicate business data across on-premises and cloud environments. Common workloads include virtual machines, databases, file shares, analytics data and backup repositories.
NetApp is often evaluated against Dell Technologies and Pure Storage for enterprise storage deployments. Its distinction lies in the ONTAP data-management ecosystem, broad protocol support, replication features and consistent operations across several deployment models.
A strong NetApp specialist usually understands network segmentation, virtualization, Linux or Windows file services, backup design and identity controls. Skills with Ansible, REST APIs, databases, Kubernetes or public cloud services can also be valuable, depending on the workload.
The required depth depends on the risk and scope of the work. A configuration review may need focused ONTAP knowledge, while a migration, disaster-recovery design or multi-site rollout calls for experience with planning, testing, change control and incident handling.
NetApp work is often suitable for remote collaboration when secure access, monitoring data and clear change procedures are available. Frankfurt-based projects may still require on-site coordination for hardware installation, cabling, data-center access or tightly controlled maintenance windows.
Ask a NetApp professional to explain a past design, its recovery objectives and how performance was validated. Strong answers cover ONTAP configuration, failure scenarios, upgrade planning, documentation and measurable acceptance tests rather than only listing product features.
NetApp includes cloud-oriented options such as Cloud Volumes ONTAP, alongside services managed through BlueXP and object storage through StorageGRID. The right choice depends on data locality, performance, portability, governance and the cloud services already used.
SnapMirror replicates data between supported NetApp environments for continuity, migration or disaster recovery. SnapCenter coordinates application-aware protection workflows, so a specialist should align both tools with backup retention, recovery testing and application dependencies.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 759 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects have 26 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.9 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Arabic (14%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Transportation (86%), and Government and Administration (86%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (86%), and Customer Service (71%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used NetApp
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.
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