Patch Management Expert in Frankfurt
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Ornel Franck W.
Last position:
Sales Partner at ERGO PRO
- Industry: Insurance, Trade, IT
- Customers & Projects: Consulting and selling insurance and similar services
- Main tasks: Insurance consulting (health insurance, retirement planning, wealth building); commercial services, inside and field sales; sales data analysis and forecasting; customer consulting and support; opening a new sales headquarters for private and business customers; business development & innovation management; business use case development; process optimization; stakeholder management; team leadership and training; preparation and delivery of trainings;
- Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Draw.IO, Camunda 8, Java (8, 17,21,25), Git, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data REST, Spring Web, Spring Security, J-Unit, Playwright, Lombock, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL (16, 17 18), pgAdmin, Docker, LLMs, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports
Tamer D.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / Senior IT Consultant at IT.Niedersachsen – Central Police Directorate (ZPD)
MOVE-ZPD – Strategic Infrastructure Project | Total Program Budget 48 Mio. € | Data Center Migration Hannover → Hamburg
Responsibility for a central subproject for migrating business-critical specialist applications to a highly available data center architecture.
- Management of a central subproject for migrating business-critical specialist applications to a highly available data center architecture.
- Independent management of around 30 of approximately 100 business-critical specialist applications, including Exchange (approx. 30'000 users), LDAP, DNS and cross-state applications.
- Management of project structure, milestones, dependencies, risks and escalations, as well as coordination of the required business and technical stakeholders.
- End-to-end coordination of the managed migrations, from planning and structuring through environment provision, testing and acceptance to production deployment and go-live.
- Stakeholder management between business units, Product Owners, data center operations, program organization and external service providers.
- Development and implementation of a standardized server request and change process to speed up VM provisioning and reduce manual coordination.
- Management reporting as well as preparation and moderation of steering and decision-making bodies and workshops.
Technologies & Tools: MS Project, MS Teams, SharePoint, Oracle APEX, CA Automation Manager, Visio, MindManager
Christian H.
Last position:
NTT Data Center Replacement – €20m at ING
NTT Data Center Replacement – €20m
- Strategy & Requirements: Data Center migration and exit strategy for ING Germany, including definition of project scope, objectives, KPIs and comprehensive requirements across cybersecurity, physical security, regulatory and group-wide strategic standards.
- Regulatory & Risk Governance: Regulatory and supervisory requirements, risk assessments, ECB notification and audit-ready documentation, achieving formal sign-off with no material findings.
- Procurement & Vendor Selection: RFP and selection of Data Center providers, migration specialists and secure transportation partners in cooperation with Procurement and in line with ING Group requirements.
- Commercial & Contractual: Complex contract negotiations with selected providers, coordinating Legal, Procurement, Business, Security, Compliance (incl. DORA) and Senior Management across both organisations.
- Infrastructure & Data Center Delivery: Data Center fit-out and implementation of base technology, including internal networks, external connectivity, cabling and core services, aligned with required security standards.
- Migration & Transition: End-to-end planning and preparation of application and infrastructure migrations, including environment-specific runbooks and coordination with Release Management, followed by handover to the internal ING organisation for execution; migration execution achieved zero unplanned downtime and no customer impact.
- Financial & Program Control: €20m Program budget with governance of expenditure, forecasts, milestones, dependencies and critical paths, maintaining delivery within approved budget and timeline parameters.
Guido K.
Last position:
IT Consultant / Owner at Guido Krauß IT-Consulting
Self-employed consulting, implementation, and support of IT infrastructures with a focus on IT security, network and server administration, virtualization, backup & recovery, IT documentation, asset management, and business continuity management.
- IT security consulting and implementation of technical protective measures
- Windows server and client support, patch management, user support
- M365 – Entra ID – MS Azure administration
- Planning, installation, and operation of LAN, WAN, WLAN, and VLAN infrastructures, Cisco, HP, Netgear, Sophos, Securepoint
- Support of virtual systems based on Hyper-V, VMware, and Proxmox
- Backup and recovery concepts including test recovery, documentation, and handover
- Introduction and maintenance of IT documentation, asset management, and inventory tracking
- Implementation of measures related to IT baseline protection, emergency manuals, and BCM
- On-/offboarding concepts with a focus on permissions, devices, data access, and handover processes
Security awareness and practical sensitization of users and IT staff
Jaouad A.
Last position:
Second Level Support at Sanofi
- Software distribution to notebooks via Active Directory and image installation
- Support of iOS and Android devices, including switching from SIM to eSIM via QR code
- Scheduling appointments and setup during employees' initial registration
- Ticket processing via ServiceNow
Theo L.
Last position:
Project Manager, Consultant at Umicore
- Led the migration of local SharePoint sites to SharePoint Online, including planning, coordination, and communication
- Advised on governance, security, and data protection
- Created project documents: project charter, project plan, communication strategy plan, risk and risk mitigation plan, scope of work documents
- Analyzed manual processes and developed automated 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.
Serkan K.
Last position:
Operation and Maintenance of Oracle Middleware Products at LBV - Landesamt für Besoldung und Versorgung Baden-Württemberg
- Patch management
- Support in database development
- Installation and upgrades of the following Oracle systems:
- Oracle Analytics Server (6.4)
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
- Oracle Data Integration Server
- Oracle BI Administration Tool
- Oracle WebLogic
Imran H.
Last position:
Goldgas
- Interface between support and customers
- Providing IT solutions
- Network support
- Patch management
- Documentation of all devices
- Optimization of the 7 meeting rooms
Michael S.
Last position:
Win11 Local Rollout Manager at Hansewerk Gruppe
Administrative coordination with providers regarding required software packages
Review of lists submitted by providers and coordination with relevant specialist departments
Organization of tests of newly scripted software packages in collaboration with specialist departments and providers
Selection and designation of employees responsible for testing and scheduling software approval dates
Documentation and filing of the release form from the specialist department
Tracking and escalation of issues to providers
Rollout planning at site and department level and execution of the rollout considering WAN capacity
Ensuring that no more than half of the employees at a site or in a department are migrated at the same time
Scheduling dependent on the availability of all required software packages
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)
Hakan K.
Last position:
IT-Management & Administration at Freiberufliche IT-Dienstleistung
- Hybrid Cloud Administration (Cloud Transformation)
- Azure Cloud Administration
- Azure Entra ID user administration
- Reporting
- License reviews
- User and group management
- RBAC integration
- Policy management
- VM administration: setup of VMs, configuration of scale sets, configuration of replications, creation of backups, manual installation
- Azure Bastion
- Privileged access identity management
- Documentation
- Azure Security Center: monitoring security posture and recommendations to improve security
- Microsoft 365 administration: MS Intune administration (Bitlocker policies, distribution, device management, group management)
- MS365 Defender (Defender for Endpoint, threat management, EDR solution implementation, threat detection through investigations)
- Defender for Office 365 (protection of Office 365 tools against phishing, malware, and other attacks)
- Defender for Identity (identification, activity monitoring)
- Defender for Cloud Apps (application monitoring and protection)
- Windows Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, policies, Baramundi, SCCM/MECM, VMware, WSUS, Sophos
- Exchange administration: rule creation, setup and deployment of mailboxes, mailbox migration, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- Windows AD administration: user management across the structure, device management, attribute management, group management, organizational management, troubleshooting
- Group Policy management: modifying, deleting or creating policies, assigning and organizing policies, documentation and reporting
- Manual installation & imaging: new imaging, image creation, manual maintenance and updates, documentation of various enterprise applications
- Bitlocker configuration, BIOS and firmware configuration, troubleshooting and collaboration with level 3 support, MBSA reporting, WSUS monitoring, system and event management, troubleshooting across the IT infrastructure
- Network management (including SWIFT network): MAC address filtering, network switch configuration, port management, switch patching
- VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter administration: VM management, troubleshooting, virtualization solutions, updates and maintenance
- Virtualization & cloud: Azure, Citrix, VMware, VirtualBox, ESXi, Hyper-V, VMware AHV, vulnerability management, migrations
- Identifying, assessing and remediating security vulnerabilities on hybrid endpoints through regular vulnerability assessments and patch management
- Backup & recovery: Teams administration, data migration, SAN, SharePoint administration, NAS, Exchange administration, cloud backup: policy creation, mailbox migration
- IT security: firewall, antivirus, Azure, MS365 Security Defender: monitoring, mailbox setup and implementation, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- IT service management: team meetings, report analysis, documentation, analysis
- Other: monitoring progress against goals, ServiceNow, HPSM, prioritizing activities, JIRA, MS365, integration of requested projects, MDM, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Adobe, PowerShell, CLI, CMD
- IT service desk: Exchange, JIRA org administration, SCCM shell: user management, device management, project management, ticket reviews, user training, ticket handling, change management, permission management, VIP support
- Facility management: coordination with building management/technical teams, organizing technology for conferences, guest access, employee access
- Nutanix/VMware administration: provisioning and setup of Nutanix clusters, installation and configuration of Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi & Hyper-V, infrastructure maintenance and operations, upgrades and patches for Nutanix clusters, planning and implementing backup solutions, installation and configuration of VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers, hybrid environments
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Statistics of experts using Patch Management
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years (Germany: 23 years)
Position duration
2.4 years (Germany: 2.2 years)
Positions per freelancer
16 (Germany: 18)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Customer Service
Top industries
Information Technology, Government and Administration, Banking and Finance
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
67% (Germany: 70%)
Master's degree or higher
33% (Germany: 35%)
Certifications per freelancer
6 (Germany: 7)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
83% (Germany: 97%)
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 Frankfurt 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 Frankfurt using Patch Management
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.
Patch Management 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%)
- Government and Administration (83%)
- Banking and Finance (75%)
- Insurance (50%)
- Automotive (42%)
- Food and Beverage (42%)
- Healthcare (42%)
- Chemical (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What patch management covers
Patch management is the controlled process of finding, testing, approving and deploying updates across operating systems, applications, servers and endpoints. It reduces exposure to known vulnerabilities while keeping business systems stable. The work includes inventory, prioritisation, rollout, validation and clear records of every change.
Systems and tooling
Professionals work across Windows, Linux, macOS, virtual machines, mobile devices and cloud workloads. Common tooling includes Microsoft Intune, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), Configuration Manager, Ansible, Jamf and cloud-native update services. Strong specialists connect these tools with identity, endpoint protection, monitoring and service management workflows.
Typical delivery work
- Build an accurate hardware and software inventory
- Define patch rings, maintenance windows and approval rules
- Test updates against applications and business-critical devices
- Automate deployment, rollback and compliance reporting
- Investigate failed installations and vulnerable assets
Patch management projects can support office devices, data centres, virtual desktops, production servers and distributed cloud estates. The right approach depends on system criticality, application dependencies, network access and the organisation’s tolerance for disruption.
When companies need specialists
Freelance expertise helps when an organisation is replacing WSUS, introducing Intune, consolidating endpoint tools or responding to an audit finding. Companies also bring in specialists after a security incident, during a migration or when patch compliance reporting cannot be trusted. In Frankfurt, professionals may need to coordinate remote work with on-site operations across offices, plants and regulated environments.
Skills that make the difference
A strong professional combines security awareness with careful change control. They understand vulnerability prioritisation, package testing, scripting, PowerShell, Bash, device groups, maintenance windows and rollback planning. They can explain technical risk to service owners and document decisions so that operations, security and audit teams can act on the same information.
Choosing the right professional
Look for evidence of controlled rollouts in environments similar to yours, not just familiarity with a specific product. Ask how the specialist handles emergency patches, failed updates, unsupported software, exceptions and assets that are rarely connected. Quality shows in clean inventories, useful dashboards, repeatable automation, tested recovery steps and communication that keeps users and system owners informed.
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Patch Management — answered in short.
Patch management is used to keep operating systems, applications, servers and endpoint devices updated with security fixes, bug fixes and stability improvements. It combines asset discovery, risk assessment, testing, deployment and verification rather than treating updates as isolated tasks.
Patch management focuses on applying and verifying software updates. Vulnerability management is broader: it identifies weaknesses, evaluates their business risk and may recommend compensating controls when a patch cannot be deployed safely.
A capable patch management specialist may work with Microsoft Intune, WSUS, Configuration Manager, Ansible, Jamf and cloud provider services. The useful adjacent skills include PowerShell or Bash, endpoint security, asset inventory, identity management, monitoring and service management.
A patch management freelancer should have handled discovery, test groups, staged deployment, exception processes and rollback planning in a comparable environment. The depth required depends on endpoint variety, server criticality, application dependencies and how much automation the organisation expects.
Much of patch management can be delivered remotely through cloud consoles, secure access and documented change processes. Frankfurt-based organisations may still need occasional on-site collaboration for plant systems, restricted networks, hardware dependencies or workshops with local operations teams.
Automated patch management works well for standardised devices with reliable inventory, tested update policies and clear maintenance windows. It should be paired with staged rings, monitoring and rollback controls, especially where an update could interrupt production or customer-facing services.
Ask the patch management professional to explain how they measure coverage, prioritise urgent fixes, manage exceptions and prove that updates succeeded. Strong answers include practical controls such as accurate inventories, deployment logs, recovery plans and reports that different stakeholders can understand.
Successful patch management work requires access to asset and software inventories, current policies, maintenance constraints and contacts for application owners. In a Frankfurt project, it also helps to agree early on remote access, on-site requirements and the working language used by security and operations teams.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 830 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects, 67% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 33% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects are German (100%), English (83%), and Spanish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Government and Administration (83%), and Banking and Finance (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Patch Management in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (75%), and Customer Service (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Patch Management
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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