NetApp Experts in Munich
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Munich, who have recently used NetApp
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
Volker L.
Last position:
Project Manager at Schaeffler
Schaeffler: SASE Harmonization (SD-WAN/Zscaler Client Rollout)
- Overall project planning (including planning, preparation, and execution of the migrations)
- Project Management Office (PMO) – preparing status reports, monitoring progress with dashboards, preparing and conducting steering boards
- Coordination with the regions and departments to prepare the migrations
- Coordinating the execution of the migrations (cut-over)
- Coordination with the managed service provider for SD-WAN
Serge K.
Last position:
Data Scientist & MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) at REWE Digital GmbH
- It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
- GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
- Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
- CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
- Development of feature store and data synchronization between environments
- Data science: evaluation of different forecasting models, including CatBoost, Contextual Gamma and Random Forest; implementation of training pipelines using Kubeflow on Vertex AI; scaling and development of an event-driven interface using Kafka as a forecasting service; evaluation of MLFlow for model tracking and model registry
- Implementation of REST API using KeyCloak OAuth2 and OpenID (JWT)
- Monitoring: implementation of dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Streamlit and Loki to monitor prediction metrics, GCP and Snowflake costs for pipelines, and system metrics
- Development of Copilot Agent Skills
Michael M.
Last position:
IT Consultant at VBL - Volleyball Bundesliga
Designed and planned various data interfaces for "Big Data" processing of volleyball performance data, as Phase 1 of the major "Data Driven Content" project for the Volleyball Bundesliga, Berlin. UML modeling, interface design, monitoring implementation, commissioning, and user training. Negotiated a preliminary contract for Phase 2 in summer 2026.
Christiane S.
Last position:
Freelance Marketing and PR Copywriter, B2B, IT & Cybersecurity at PER Connect (Akima Media)
- Whitepapers, case studies, landing pages, specialist articles and press releases for B2B clients from the IT and cybersecurity sectors, including TrendAI, SoftwareOne, All for One, SVA, Axians, NetApp, Indevis, Aconso
Key topics: Cybersecurity, AI, Cloud Computing, Digitalization, Big Data Analytics, Virtualization, Data Management, IoT, New Work, Data Center Modernization, SAP S/4HANA Migration
Alexander N.
Last position:
Security Expert at DAK-Gesundheit
- Pentesting of mobile applications
- Code review
- Gematik audit
- Development of secure software development methods
- Creation of security and test concepts
- Penetration testing of software and architecture
- Vulnerability analysis
- Automation and information security
- Use of Confluence and Jira
- Working with databases, J2EE, JavaServer Faces, Liquibase, Apache, Maven, Mercurial, Oracle Financials
- Documentation and creation of security policies
- Management of software systems, SharePoint, PrimeFaces, Git
- Compliance with security regulations and .NET, AWS, API
- Tools: MobSF, Frida, Android Studio, Drozer, Objection, Azure
Marco F.
Last position:
System Engineer–Vmware, Veeam at DCSO
- About 800 different server VMs, operation and lifecycle/asset management of about 40 ESXi hosts (Lenovo)
- Upgrade of all clusters to ESXi/VCSA 7.0U3 and 8. Planning patch management for all hosts
- Cleaning up the AD – many different domains that all needed to be migrated into the main environment. Planning/execution
- Veeam – check the configuration and migrate to a newer, partly virtual infrastructure to make the setup leaner and faster
- VMware – upgrades/updates, general maintenance
- Proxmox POC – evaluate if an alternative to VMware
- Documentation for Veeam/VMware/storage
- Implementation of the uniflow cloud solution
- NetApp migration to new storage, CIFS maintenance and administration of SVMs
Konstantinos M.
Last position:
IT System Engineer at Client belongs to critical infrastructure
- IT infrastructure services
- IT services, networks, Exchange, Office 365 & 2016
- IT documentation
- Collaboration with external partner & managed provider
- Stakeholder management
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Statistics of experts using NetApp
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
25 years
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 2.1 years)
Positions per freelancer
17 (Germany: 19)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Automotive, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
57% (Germany: 73%)
Master's degree or higher
57% (Germany: 45%)
Doctorate
14% (Germany: 3%)
Certifications per freelancer
6
Most common languages
German, English, French
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 Munich 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 Munich 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 29 Oct 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 (88%)
- Automotive (63%)
- Banking and Finance (50%)
- Healthcare (50%)
- Manufacturing (50%)
- Education (38%)
- Insurance (38%)
- Media and Entertainment (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
NetApp foundations
NetApp is a data infrastructure portfolio built around networked storage, data management and hybrid cloud operations. Its core operating system, ONTAP, supports SAN, NAS and unified storage through systems such as AFF, FAS and ASA. Companies use it to keep business data available, protected and manageable across sites.
ONTAP environments
Strong NetApp specialists work with storage virtual machines, aggregates, volumes, logical interfaces and multiprotocol access. They configure NFS, SMB and iSCSI, apply storage efficiency features and plan capacity without disrupting production workloads. The work often includes performance analysis, permissions and resilient service design.
Data protection
NetApp is frequently used for backup, disaster recovery and controlled data movement. Professionals deliver SnapMirror replication, Snapshot policies, SnapVault workflows and recovery procedures, while integrating monitoring and automation around them.
- Configure replication between ONTAP clusters
- Define recovery objectives and failover runbooks
- Protect workloads with immutable or isolated copies
- Test restores without affecting production data
Cloud and tooling
The ecosystem reaches beyond physical arrays. It includes BlueXP, Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Azure NetApp Files and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, alongside REST APIs, PowerShell and Ansible. In Munich, NetApp work may support manufacturers, financial services, research organisations or public-sector environments, with collaboration shaped by security and language requirements.
When specialists help
Companies bring in freelance NetApp expertise during migrations, refreshes, audits and recovery planning. External support is also useful when an internal team needs focused capacity for a complex change or an independent review.
- Replace legacy SAN or NAS platforms
- Migrate workloads with limited downtime
- Resolve latency, capacity or replication issues
- Connect on-premises storage with cloud services
- Document operations for handover and compliance
What quality looks like
A capable professional combines ONTAP depth with networking, virtualization, backup and security knowledge. They explain design decisions, validate assumptions in a test environment and leave clear documentation. Look for evidence of safe change control, tested recovery, careful access management and communication that works equally well on-site in Munich or remotely.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions that come up most around NetApp.
NetApp provides shared storage and data management for applications, virtual machines, databases and file services. Companies use ONTAP systems for NAS, SAN, replication, backup coordination and hybrid cloud storage.
NetApp is often considered when a company needs broad NAS and SAN support, mature replication and a consistent data layer across on-premises and cloud environments. Dell PowerStore and Pure Storage may suit other priorities, so the right choice depends on protocols, operating model, migration plans and existing skills.
NetApp work benefits from knowledge of TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, VMware, Hyper-V, Linux, Windows file services and backup systems. Automation with Ansible or PowerShell, cloud networking and identity management are also valuable for larger environments.
A small configuration task may need focused NetApp expertise, while a migration or disaster recovery redesign requires experience with ONTAP internals, dependencies and rollback planning. Assess the scope, business impact and recovery requirements rather than relying on a generic seniority label.
NetApp projects can often be delivered remotely through secure access, documented change processes and scheduled coordination with local teams. On-site work may still be needed for hardware installation, cabling, data-centre access or sensitive production changes in Munich.
Cloud Volumes ONTAP can help organisations that want familiar ONTAP data services in a public cloud while retaining control over storage policies and replication. A specialist should check workload patterns, network paths, resilience, cloud costs and operational ownership before recommending it.
Review how the NetApp professional documents the design, tests recovery and manages changes. Ask for a clear explanation of protocol choices, permissions, monitoring, replication status and failure handling, not just a list of completed configurations.
ONTAP is NetApp’s storage operating system and the foundation of many NetApp systems and cloud services. Older material may refer to Data ONTAP, but current project discussions usually use ONTAP and specify the relevant deployment model.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 816 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects, 57% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 57% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects have 25 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (63%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Automotive (63%), and Banking and Finance (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Munich, Germany who have used NetApp in their recent projects are Information Technology (88%), Project Management (88%), and Operations (75%).
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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