Puppet Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Puppet
Burhan D.
Last position:
Enterprise Architect & Solution Architect at DB Netz AG
With project PRIZMA, DB will modernize its infrastructure on the one hand, and develop a fail-safe IT landscape on the other hand, which can be restored quickly and securely in case of a disaster.
- Capture current architectures of existing systems as well as methodical consulting and development of target architectures
- Deepen and maintain the building plan / target IT landscape
- Implement technical architecture concepts & architecture descriptions
- Implement migration concepts for updating and further developing the platform and information systems
- Assess submitted improvement suggestions as part of the project
- Capability management: identify capability gaps, develop target visions, and support transformation planning within the enterprise architecture.
- Create a compatibility matrix of the components in use and compare dependencies of specific versions
- Create an IT concept for extending the platform with the following topics: hardware and software requirements, security, licensing, high availability, load balancing, backup & recovery, update strategy, monitoring integration, etc.
- Coordinate with business architects as well as technical architects from the cross-functional architecture area of the PRISMA program for the topics (backup, Active Directory, monitoring, Citrix, and business applications ...)
- Status meetings and alignment of project planning with the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager
- Advise the Release Train Engineer / Project Manager in identifying project risks
- Advise the System Architect Engineers in steering the implementation of the concept
- Implement the IT concept
- Document the infrastructure
Label: MS Project, LINUX, Windows, ORACLE, Java, REST, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, UML, Enterprise Architect, BPMN, AZURE, AWS, V-MODEL, Micro Service, VisualStudio, SAP S/4HANA, SCRUM(SAFE), ESB (TIBCO), Python, Innovator, LeanIX (TOGAF), Ansible, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation, ROBOT, SpringBoot
Niko S.
Last position:
Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics" at HH Energienetze
- Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
- Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
- Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.
Salim C.
Last position:
Cloud / Systems Architect
- Development and introduction of operations processes
- Preparation of complete documentation packages (including incident management and operations support) to meet compliance requirements
- Introduction of a workshop on IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Technical consulting for the project security concept (ISMS)
- Installation and operation of Kubernetes clusters on AWS, on-prem, and Azure
- Hybrid cloud architecture design (on-prem, Hetzner, AWS)
- Analysis and troubleshooting of incidents and system outages
- Network adjustments for firewall rules, gateways, OpenVPN settings, and IPsec tunnels (pfSense)
- Technical consulting on Bitbucket, Jenkins, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Consulting on Ansible deployments and infrastructure automation
- Consulting on building a scalable system in the cloud (AWS / Azure)
- Technologies / Tools: Ansible, Terraform, AWS, Azure, VPN, pfSense, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Kubernetes, GitLab Runner, ISMS, Golang, Prometheus, Grafana, S3, Lambda, RDS, ECS, Cognito, OIDC, Harbor, MinIO, Postgres, Redis, Keycloak, Ceph, Proxmox, CloudFormation, PostgreSQL, Flux CD, Hetzner, IONOS, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Entra ID, Dex IdP, Pulumi
Thorsten M.
Last position:
Odoo Implementer at N.N.
As project manager for the Odoo implementation at a small company, I was responsible for designing, implementing, and training a fully integrated CRM and accounting system. Through structured requirements analysis, precise data migration, and targeted change management, I was able to complete the rollout in just eight weeks. The project led to a significant reduction in manual tasks, faster business processes, and increased real-time transparency.
Main Responsibilities
Requirements analysis and process mapping Configuration of Odoo modules: CRM, Sales, and Accounting Data migration (Excel/CSV → Odoo) and quality control Creation of workflows, automated email rules, and dashboards Conducting training sessions and providing support after go-live Project coordination (budget, schedule, stakeholder communication)
Key Achievements
Full implementation of the Odoo suite within the set timeframe (8 weeks) 30% reduction in accounting time and 25% acceleration of the lead-to-sale flow 100% customer satisfaction after go-live, based on survey results Successful migration of 100% of existing master data without data loss Establishment of a sustainable support infrastructure (3-month post go-live support)
Impact
Improved decision-making through real-time dashboards and automated reports Increased efficiency and cost savings (≈ €8,000/month) Scalability for future growth (additional modules can be integrated seamlessly) Strengthened sales and finance departments through seamless process integration
This summary highlights how I created concrete and measurable value for the company through structured project work, technical expertise, and targeted training.
Matthias W.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer at Interhyp AG
- Infrastructure management with Puppet and Terraform for consistent environments
- Maintenance and adaptation of Terraform scripts for Azure cloud deployment
- Migration of database systems and services to the Azure cloud
- Introduction of GitOps with ArgoCD for fully automated deployments
- Adaptation and development of GitHub pipelines for CI/CD workflows
- Creation of Helm Charts for standardized deployments
- Migration of repositories from Bitbucket to GitHub
- Operation and performance optimization of an Oracle 19c grid cluster (RAC, Dataguard)
- Setup and management of MongoDB instances (on-premise and Azure Kubernetes)
- Setup of PostgreSQL clusters in on-premise and Azure Kubernetes environments
- Migration of services, master data, and stored procedures from Oracle to PostgreSQL
- Troubleshooting and performance tuning of complex data infrastructures
- Installation, configuration, and upgrade of Tableau in the productive BI environment
- Development of sanity checks to monitor business processes and application logic
- Adaptation of the backup and recovery strategy to new requirements
- Carrying out disaster recovery and point-in-time recovery
- Technologies used: Oracle 19c RAC Grid Dataguard, PostgreSQL 16, MongoDB, MySQL Cluster, Kubernetes (Azure), Tableau, Puppet, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub/Bitbucket, CheckMK, Prometheus, Grafana, Icinga2, Ubuntu/RHEL
Oliver K.
Last position:
Founder & AI Automation Architect at Zerobits
Zerobits is my vehicle for AI-powered automation and custom software development with a clear principle: AI solutions that reach production, not pilot stage. I design and build the systems myself - from first concept and architecture through implementation to deployment and operations.
My focus is on replacing repetitive, manual work with reliable automation and connecting disconnected tools and data sources into one dependable overall system.
Selected work:
- Design and implementation of LLM-based agent systems and RAG pipelines (Anthropic Claude, Mistral, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search + RAG)
- Workflow orchestration for long-running, fault-tolerant business processes using Temporal (temporal.io): saga patterns, event-driven architecture, retry and compensation logic, connecting third-party APIs and internal services into automated end-to-end processes
- Full stack product development: SaaS architecture on Kubernetes, TypeScript/React/NestJS, admin tooling with refine.dev and MUI
- AI-assisted development workflow as standard practice to deliver production software at a fraction of traditional timelines
- Full stack product development: multi-tenant SaaS architecture running on Kubernetes, backend with NestJS/Node.js and Python, frontend with TypeScript, React and Next.js, admin tooling with refine.dev and MUI, CI/CD with GitHub Actions
One of these projects is a product I own and operate - free of any NDA restrictions. I'm happy to demonstrate it end to end.
Thomas P.
Last position:
Unix/Linux Administrator at BDAV Verwaltungs GmbH
- Consulting and project management to build an AI-based automation platform for market data analysis
- Automated testing of financial data
- Market data automation with Python and N8N
- AI data integration and AI learning
- Use of Ollama and Qwen
- Data organization and database management
Serge K.
Last position:
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
Olaf R.
Last position:
DevOps Architect / Consultant at Authority with increased security requirements
- Identification of requirements (legal, organizational, and technical)
- Design of solution architectures
- Evaluation of concepts and technologies
- Preparation of decision templates
- Architectural Decision Records (ADR)
- Coordination of implementation
- Review of implementations
- Documentation
Martin W.
Last position:
Security Auditor at MissionMe
- Environment: AWS, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React Native
- Penetration test for Backend, Android-App and iOS-App
Raphael V.
Last position:
Tech- / Team Lead / Architect / Engineer at Freelance IT Consultant
- Independent Software Engineer focusing mainly on complex backend architectures.
Christian P.
Last position:
VMware Aria Specialist at public authority
- Creating workflows for server orders with different conditions, requirements and specifications based on an external ordering portal (connecting Aria Automation via RestAPI to BMC ITSM Helix) for separate internal customers / teams / tenants
- Mapping workflows for Day-2 Operations through the upstream portal (Snapshots, Resize, Disk Operations, Backup)
- Creating test cases and automated tests to verify the code and stability of the complete ordering process
- Documenting workflows in Confluence / Wiki / Jira
- Creating and maintaining blueprints
- Integrating Ansible Tower for further VM customization
Matthias K.
Last position:
General ERP and AI Consulting at Swissnorm
- Improve and properly define internal processes
- Requirements management and selection of an ERP system
- Consulting on selecting, implementing and using AI to optimize processes
- Systems and technology: ERPnext
Yannick T.
Last position:
Cloud Architect at Anonymous
- Implementation of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to ensure a scalable, repeatable, and secure Azure infrastructure
- Implementation and optimization of CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps
- Management of container and server environments and AKS
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).
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Statistics of experts using Puppet
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
24 years
Position duration
2.5 years
Positions per freelancer
17
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Retail
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
70%
Master's degree or higher
43%
Doctorate
4%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
German, English, French
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 Germany 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 Germany using Puppet
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.
Puppet 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 (94%)
- Banking and Finance (57%)
- Retail (46%)
- Telecommunication (43%)
- Government and Administration (40%)
- Insurance (37%)
- Manufacturing (34%)
- Professional Services (34%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Configuration automation
Puppet is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining the desired state of servers, applications and system settings. Its declarative manifests let teams describe how systems should be configured instead of documenting every manual command. Puppet then applies and continuously checks that state across managed nodes.
Puppet ecosystem
The ecosystem includes Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Server, Puppet agents, modules and the Puppet Forge. Hiera separates configuration data from code, while PuppetDB supports reporting and inventory use cases. Strong specialists also work with Git, Linux, Windows Server, Ruby, YAML, REST APIs and CI/CD pipelines around Puppet workflows.
What companies build
Puppet is used for repeatable operations across data centres, cloud environments and hybrid infrastructure.
- Standardise operating system and security settings
- Install and configure application middleware
- Enforce packages, services, users and permissions
- Manage large fleets with reusable modules
- Support migration and hybrid infrastructure projects
When expertise matters
Companies often bring in freelance Puppet expertise during platform migrations, configuration standardisation or audits of inconsistent server estates. Specialists can replace fragile scripts, establish a maintainable module structure and connect infrastructure changes with review and release processes. In Germany, remote collaboration is common, while on-site work may matter for regulated or operationally sensitive environments.
Skills to assess
Look for professionals who can design clear manifests, structure modules and use Hiera without hiding important logic in complex data layers. They should understand idempotence, dependencies, environments, certificates, agent-server communication and failure diagnosis. Experience with both Linux and Windows can be valuable when a company operates mixed infrastructure.
Reliable delivery
A strong Puppet specialist starts by mapping the current state, ownership boundaries and operational risks. They test changes before broad rollout, document assumptions and provide useful reports when resources drift from the desired state. Good delivery leaves behind readable code, repeatable deployments and a clear handover for the internal team.
Frequently asked questions
Curious about Puppet? Here are the answers that come up again and again.
Puppet is used to automate and enforce the configuration of servers, applications and infrastructure resources. Companies use it to standardise operating systems, manage packages and services, apply security settings and reduce configuration drift across hybrid environments.
Puppet focuses on continuously enforcing a declared configuration state through manifests, agents and a central control model. Ansible commonly uses agentless task execution, Chef also uses a configuration-management approach, and Terraform is primarily used to provision infrastructure resources rather than manage their full operating-system state.
A strong Puppet specialist often works with Linux, Windows Server, Git, Ruby, YAML, Hiera and CI/CD systems. Knowledge of networking, identity management, cloud infrastructure, containers and security controls helps when Puppet manages more than isolated servers.
The right level depends on the scope, not a fixed number of years. A focused module update may need a specialist who can work safely within an existing codebase, while a new Puppet Enterprise rollout requires experience with architecture, certificates, environments, reporting and operational handover.
Puppet projects are often suitable for remote collaboration because manifests, modules, reviews and deployment pipelines can be managed through shared repositories. On-site work may still be useful when access procedures, operational teams or regulated infrastructure require close coordination in Germany.
Ask the specialist to explain how they design idempotent manifests, structure reusable modules and separate Hiera data from code. Review examples of testing, rollback planning, drift reporting and incident diagnosis rather than judging quality only by the number of modules delivered.
Puppet is a stronger fit when many systems must remain consistent over time and configuration changes need reviewable, repeatable enforcement. Shell scripts can be useful for narrow tasks, but they often provide less structure for dependencies, reporting, cross-platform management and ongoing drift correction.
A Puppet freelancer may deliver manifests, reusable modules, Hiera data structures, environment layouts, testing workflows and deployment documentation. Depending on the assignment, the work can also include Puppet Enterprise setup, migration from legacy scripts, integration with CI/CD and knowledge transfer to the internal team.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 807 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects, 70% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 43% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (57%), and Retail (46%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Puppet in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (77%), and Project Management (77%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Puppet
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