PCI DSS Experts in Frankfurt
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Reza N.
Last position:
Senior IT-Security Expert at Teambank AG
- Completed the integration of log sources into Microsoft Sentinel, including GCP workloads – centralized consolidation of all security-relevant events from Azure and GCP environments for complete end-to-end telemetry and comprehensive compliance evidence
- Developed custom rules and use cases based on the GFG Use-Case Library and the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix to cover company-specific threats and GFG-relevant scenarios with precise, mapped detection rules
- Tuned detection rules to minimize false positives, optimized detection thresholds, and modeled exceptions – enabling the SOC to work with relevant, prioritized alerts while reducing Mean Time to Detect/Respond
- Built SOAR capabilities in Sentinel by developing playbooks to automate recurring response processes such as containment, user and host isolation, and ticketing – shorter response times and 24/7 scalability
- Designed and built a log transformation solution to normalize and enrich incoming raw logs (GeoIP, CMDB, threat intelligence) and convert them into a consistent schema for high-performance KQL queries, use case logic, and correlations
- Managed Azure security through Azure Policies to enforce security and compliance standards, prevent drift, and continuously remediate deviations
- Operated the Defender XDR portal to link endpoint, identity, email, and SaaS signals with Sentinel findings, enable holistic incident triage, and orchestrate measures directly from XDR
Technologies: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure Policy, KQL, GCP, MITRE ATT&CK
Prasad T.
Last position:
Solution Architect / Senior Manager – DTC E-Commerce Platform at BRITA
- Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
- Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
- Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
- Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
- Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
- Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
- Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka
Peter S.
Last position:
IT Project Manager at PAS Provider for Hospital
Overall responsibility for managing a clinical digitization project in a regulated hospital environment.
Design and implementation of a patient call and management system (PASO) for the orthopedics department of a large hospital.
- Project management, planning, and control
- Process analysis and optimization, and managing implementation and rollout
- Coordination with clinical departments, IT, and external service providers
- Ensuring integration into existing IT and process landscapes
Project scope: 310 person-days, team size: 21 members.
Emil S.
Last position:
IT Project Manager at Eurowings Aviation GmbH
- The project aimed to reduce the scope of the annual PCI DSS audit and increase security in credit card payments.
- Credit card payments were tokenized and data and business processes adjusted so that no personal data was used in the internal IT infrastructure.
- Tools: MS Office, Jira, Confluence, draw.io, Miro, Scrum.
- Designed the tokenization of credit card payments.
- Clarified necessary changes to the architecture and data model.
- Designed and implemented process changes in the call center.
- Prepared management documentation on project status, decisions required, risks and escalations.
Leonid R.
Last position:
IT Business Analyst / Requirements Engineer at S-Payment GmbH / Sparkasse (DSV-Gruppe)
- Business analysis of payments for the introduction of Wero EPI in Germany.
- Analysis and optimization of merchant processes in the context of acquiring and issuing.
- Analysis of interfaces for instant payments.
- Analysis of SCT-Inst processes, settlement mechanisms and reporting processes.
- Identification and clarification of gaps in merchant processes.
- Analysis and documentation of clearing and settlement processes.
- OSPlus process analysis and documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with scheme management as well as various payment service providers and financial institutions on merchant processes.
- Preparation and follow-up as well as active participation in EPI meetings on technical coordination and regulatory topics in payments, including content familiarization and prioritization.
- Preparation and documentation of project and steering committees in the EPI environment.
- Creation of status reports for the subproject.
- Maintenance and structuring of Confluence pages for project documentation.
- Coordination and alignment with the issuing teams on individual customer processes as well as aligning with bank processes and acquirer processes in the Wero environment.
- Communication with payment service providers regarding merchant and bank processes in the Wero environment.
- Organizational support for project management in special tasks in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Digital filing and documentation in Confluence and Microsoft Teams.
- Planning, implementation and tracking of work packages and steps.
- Quality assurance and project control.
- Consulting on IT strategy, IT architecture and interface management in the EPI and Wero environment.
- Technical environment: Jira, Confluence, XML, JSON, MS Office (Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Draw.io, Innovator, 3rd-level support, ITIL, creation and updating of software documentation, interface management, OSPlus, Scrum, KYC, payment, European Payments Initiative (EPI), Wero, Microsoft Loop, Instant Payments, SCT-Inst.
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.
Abdullah A.
Last position:
Technical Program Manager - IT & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at Maxon Computer GmbH (a Nemetschek Company)
Led cross-functional compliance and IT programs spanning infrastructure, security, legal, and executive stakeholders, ensuring audit readiness and regulatory alignment.
Acted as single point of ownership for IT governance and CSR programs, defining scope, milestones, risks, and success metrics.
Partnered directly with VP of IT as a governance and control counterpart, supporting security incidents, compliance posture (ISO 27001, GDPR, SOC 2), and executive reporting.
Supported organizational readiness for emerging EU regulations, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and EU AI Act, by analyzing regulatory requirements, identifying governance and compliance impacts, and aligning internal policies and control processes.
Designed and scaled data collection and reporting processes for CSR and regulatory reporting across group and subsidiary level.
Drove process improvements and standardization, increasing transparency, predictability, and audit readiness.
Technologies and tools: Office 365 Power BI, MS SharePoint, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Teams, Zendesk, Confluence, JIRA, Vanta.
Falk W.
Last position:
SVP IT & Organisation / Deputy SVP Finance & Controlling Infrastructure at B+S Card Service / Payone
- Modernised post-merger regulated payment-processing infrastructure (KRITIS).
- Established cloud-enabled platform and ensured PCI and regulatory compliance.
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Statistics of experts using PCI DSS
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
18 years
Position duration
1.4 years
Positions per freelancer
15
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
100%
Master's degree or higher
43%
Doctorate
14%
Certifications per freelancer
8
Most common languages
German, English, Hindi
Speak two or more languages
88%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using PCI DSS
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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.
PCI DSS 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%)
- Banking and Finance (88%)
- Healthcare (50%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Insurance (38%)
- Telecommunication (38%)
- Aerospace and Defense (25%)
- Transportation (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What PCI DSS covers
PCI DSS, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, defines security requirements for organizations that store, process or transmit payment card data. It covers governance, network protection, access control, vulnerability management, monitoring, testing and incident response. Compliance depends on the actual cardholder data environment, not simply on the tools a company uses.
Where it applies
The standard supports payment platforms, online retailers, banks, subscription services, hospitality groups and service providers that handle card transactions. Companies may need to secure payment applications, cloud workloads, point-of-sale systems, APIs, call-center processes and third-party integrations. In Frankfurt, specialists often support financial, retail and logistics operations with complex payment flows.
Core tooling and skills
Strong PCI DSS professionals connect policy with technical evidence across the security stack. Their work can involve firewalls, identity and access management, endpoint protection, encryption, tokenization, vulnerability scanners, SIEM systems, ticketing tools and cloud security controls.
- Map cardholder data flows and system boundaries
- Review access, logging, encryption and retention controls
- Coordinate vulnerability scans, penetration tests and remediation
- Build clear evidence for assessments and recurring reviews
When companies need expertise
Freelance specialists are useful before an assessment, during a major payment architecture change or after an incident. They can clarify scope, test whether controls operate in practice and turn fragmented documentation into an actionable compliance plan. External support also helps internal teams handle urgent remediation without losing operational focus.
- A new payment provider or cloud environment changes the scope
- Audit evidence is incomplete, inconsistent or difficult to retrieve
- Findings remain open across infrastructure, applications and processes
- Teams need independent preparation for a formal assessment
What strong professionals deliver
The best specialists do more than compare policies with a checklist. They trace data through real systems, challenge assumptions, explain risk to business and technical stakeholders, and document evidence that an assessor can follow. They understand compensating controls, shared responsibility, vendor dependencies and the difference between a design that looks compliant and one that operates reliably.
Working with a specialist
A focused engagement should begin with the payment flow, current scope, assessment route and known gaps. Remote collaboration works well when diagrams, logs, tickets and policies are organized and access is controlled; on-site workshops in Frankfurt can help when teams, facilities or point-of-sale environments need direct review. Agree on deliverables such as a scope map, gap register, remediation backlog, evidence pack and validation report before work starts.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about PCI DSS? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
PCI DSS is used to protect payment card data and reduce the risk of unauthorized access, misuse and disclosure. It gives organizations a structured set of security requirements for systems, processes and people involved in card payments.
PCI DSS focuses specifically on environments that handle payment card data, while ISO 27001 and SOC 2 address broader information security and control assurance goals. The frameworks can support one another, but meeting one does not automatically satisfy the requirements of the others.
A strong PCI DSS specialist often brings skills in network segmentation, cloud security, identity management, encryption, vulnerability management, incident response and audit evidence. Experience with payment gateways, tokenization and secure software delivery is also valuable when the cardholder data environment includes applications or APIs.
The right level of PCI DSS experience depends on scope, system complexity and the assessment path. A smaller environment may need focused gap analysis, while a distributed payment operation usually benefits from someone who has led scoping, remediation and evidence preparation across several control areas.
Much of PCI DSS work can be completed remotely through secure document sharing, interviews, system reviews and evidence workshops. On-site collaboration in Frankfurt may be useful for data-center, retail or point-of-sale reviews, and clear German or English communication should be agreed with stakeholders in advance.
Before engaging a PCI DSS expert, provide available network diagrams, data-flow maps, system inventories, policies, previous findings and the planned assessment scope. A clear description of payment channels and third-party providers helps the specialist identify the highest-value work first.
Quality PCI DSS work is specific, evidence-based and tied to the actual cardholder data environment. Good deliverables explain scope decisions, identify control owners, distinguish design gaps from operating failures and give teams a practical path to validate remediation.
A PCI DSS freelancer may deliver a scope assessment, data-flow and network diagrams, a gap register, control recommendations, remediation tracking and an evidence index. Depending on the engagement, they may also prepare assessment materials, coordinate testing and document how recurring compliance activities will be maintained.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 831 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 43% hold at least a Master's degree, and 14% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects have 18 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 1.4 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects are German (100%), English (88%), and Hindi (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (88%), and Healthcare (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used PCI DSS in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (100%), and Operations (88%).
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