Red Hat Satellite Experts in Germany
in minutes from over 15,000 CVs with the power of AIHire experts who manage Red Hat Satellite content, lifecycle environments, and patch workflows, and who keep RHEL systems consistent across sites and teams. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.
Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used Red Hat Satellite
Tan Pham
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.
Felix Schmitt
Last position:
System Consultant / Consultant at Freelance work
- Projects in the area of Identity and Access Management, Single Sign-On, and LDAP directories
- Development of Java modules
- Development and administration of Java/J2EE-based applications on different application servers
- Administration of Unix systems (Linux, Solaris, AIX) and applications
- Migration of systems
Teemu Suvanto
Last position:
SRE at E.On SE
- Maintained a SaaS billing platform on AWS as part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.
- Played a key role in an AWS cloud migration project, implementing Terraform (IaC), creating CI/CD processes and pipelines, hardening images, upgrading tool versions, and developing scripts.
- Wrote documentation.
AWS Cloud migration:
- Design and implement CI/CD for deploying AWS resources using GitLab CI, Terraform, and GitOps.
- Create and configure DevOps toolchain including Jenkins, Harbor, and Vault.
- Deploy billing application, microservices, and supporting infrastructure services to Nomad clusters.
- Re-designed TLS/mTLS certificate management using Vault and Lambda.
Security (Infrastructure Hardening & Patch Management & Vulnerability Scanning):
- Managed multiple AWS accounts for Consul/Nomad/Traefik clusters (10–20 EC2 instances/account, ASG) and DevOps toolchain accounts (Harbor, Jenkins, Vault).
- Created hardened AMIs via Packer based on CIS benchmarks for Nomad, Jenkins, Harbor, and Vault; deployed using Terraform.
- Integrated Trivy via Harbor plugin for container image scanning.
- Implemented strict AWS VPC security group rules.
- Developed and maintained patching process across environments using Qualys and Wiz.
- Deployed Qualys Cloud Agent to all EC2 instances, tracked CVEs and tested patches in lower environments before rollout.
- Automated patch deployment across all AWS accounts using Terraform and GitLab CI and verified patch compliance via Qualys/Wiz dashboards.
Thomas Merkel
Last position:
Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at TrackCode GmbH
- Developing GitHub Actions/pipelines for automatic application deployment
- Supporting the provisioning of Helm charts for the CI/CD infrastructure
- Rebuilding and migrating a Kubernetes cluster using Rancher
- Creating IaC with Terraform for Kubernetes and additional services (monitoring, databases)
- Deploying a highly available Percona Galera cluster (MySQL)
- Implementing a centralized monitoring and logging infrastructure
Marco Köhl
Last position:
Freelancer at IBM Deutschland GmbH NGNCC
- Design and setup of infrastructure concepts for virtualized servers with VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter
- Migration from vCenter 7 environments to vCenter 8
- Automated deployment of virtual machines using Microsoft PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI as well as Ansible Tower
- Prototype setup and test migration of applications in various container environments
- Administration of firewalls and network components (routing and switching)
- Migration of VPN connection for all employees from Sophos UTM to Fortigate IPSec VPN with FortiToken
- Automation of OS installations on Linux with Ansible and GitLab
- VMware vSphere 8 with VMware vCenter 8
- VMware API
- VMware NSX-T
- VMware vSAN
- VMware Tanzu
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Docker
- SLES 15, Red Hat 9 and Microsoft Windows Server
- Microsoft Windows PowerShell
- GitLab
- Ansible Tower (AWX)
- SUSE Manager 4 and 5
- Fortigate Firewalls
- Fortinet Analyzer and Manager
- Juniper and Cisco switches and routers
Manfred Schirmer
Last position:
Senior System Engineer Linux at DB InfraGo AG
- Provisioning and updating virtual machines for the railway infrastructure.
- Using VMware vSphere 6–8, Veeam Backup, Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, NPS, WSUS.
- Utilizing Red Hat Satellite Server, rSyslog Server, Icinga2, Postfix, Tacacs, Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform.
- Operating on HPE rack servers and HPE Synergy blade servers with Meinberg NTP servers, Brocade FC and Cisco Nexus 9000.
Alf Kern
Last position:
Application Support at Netto Online Supermarkets
- Application support for the e-commerce presence of the Netto Online Supermarket chain [link]
- Webshop runs with PIM, ERP and Diva software - Microsoft Dynamics Business Central
- ITIL incident, change and problem management
- Diva components include ERP, CRM, OMS, WMS and POS
- Receiving, handling and, if needed, forwarding user requests
- Error analysis and support with problem solving
- Monitoring/orchestration of the individual systems
- Day-to-day collaboration with external service providers and development team
- User management and second-level support activities
- System logging/maintenance of external interfaces
- Application administration with Jira and Confluence in QA and production environments
- Technology: Windows Server 2008, Linux servers, MS SQL Server
Peter Eckhardt
Last position:
Developer at IBM
- Skills: OpenStack, Python, SaltStack
- Used products: OpenStack, Ceph, CentOS
Discover over 15,000 top freelancers
Statistics of experts using Red Hat Satellite
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
2.1 years
Positions per freelancer
24
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Product Development
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Telecommunication
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
80%
Master's degree or higher
40%
Certifications per freelancer
5
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 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 Red Hat Satellite
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 30 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the technology
Overview
Red Hat Satellite is the control layer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux fleets. It helps teams register systems, manage software content, and keep servers aligned across environments. Companies bring in Satellite specialists when they need order, repeatability, and safe change control.
What it covers
- Content views and lifecycle management for tested package promotion
- System registration, provisioning, and configuration at scale
- Errata, patch, and subscription handling for RHEL estates
- Remote execution and recurring maintenance tasks
Where it fits
Satellite is common in infrastructure that needs strong control over RHEL content and system state. It often sits beside Ansible, Puppet, or other automation tools, and it uses Foreman and Katello concepts under the hood. Some teams still refer to it simply as Satellite or Red Hat Satellite Server.
When experts help
Freelance specialists are useful during new rollouts, upgrades, content redesigns, and migration from older Satellite setups. They also help when patching is slow, repositories are messy, or teams need cleaner lifecycle promotion across development, test, and production. In Germany, this work is often done with a mix of remote planning and on-site access for sensitive environments.
Strong delivery
Good professionals understand RHEL content flow, activation keys, host groups, and capsule layout. They document clean processes, reduce manual steps, and make the setup understandable for operations teams. They also know how to avoid breakage when changing sync plans or lifecycle paths.
Typical outcomes
A solid engagement leaves you with a maintainable Satellite design, stable content promotion, and a clearer patch process. It should also make onboarding new systems easier and reduce drift across servers. The best experts leave your team able to operate the platform without guesswork.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Red Hat Satellite, in one place.
Red Hat Satellite is used to manage RHEL systems in a controlled way. It helps teams register hosts, publish and promote software content, and keep patching and lifecycle changes organized. Many companies use it when they need consistent server state across development, test, and production.
Red Hat Satellite builds on technology from the Foreman and Katello ecosystem, so the concepts can look familiar. In practice, Satellite is the supported Red Hat product that wraps those ideas into an enterprise system for RHEL content and host management. That matters when you need vendor support and a clear upgrade path.
A strong Red Hat Satellite specialist usually knows RHEL administration, Yum or DNF content management, and automation with Ansible. Knowledge of TLS, DNS, network access, and certificate handling also helps. In larger environments, experience with Capsules and provisioning workflows is valuable too.
A small content sync task needs less depth than a full redesign of Satellite lifecycle flows. A good Red Hat Satellite expert should be able to explain registration, content views, and promotion paths clearly, then adapt them to your environment. If the project includes upgrades or recovery work, deeper platform experience becomes important.
Red Hat Satellite and Ansible solve different problems and often work together. Ansible is strong for automation and configuration tasks, while Satellite manages trusted content, patch control, and host lifecycle on RHEL. If your main pain is repository sprawl or inconsistent patching, Satellite is usually the better fit.
Yes, most Red Hat Satellite work can be done remotely if network access, test systems, and credentials are arranged well. On-site time is sometimes useful for secure data centers, change windows, or environments with tight access rules. For teams in Germany, clear written communication in English is often enough, though local language support can help in some organizations.
Look for clear answers about content views, lifecycle environments, Capsules, and upgrade strategy. A strong Red Hat Satellite professional should also spot common mistakes, such as weak repository design or unclear host group structure. Good work leaves documentation, not just a working system.
Typical deliverables include a working Satellite design, synced content paths, host registration guidance, and documented maintenance steps. A Red Hat Satellite engagement may also include upgrade planning, error cleanup, and handover notes for operations teams. The best result is a system your team can run without constant support.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects is 104 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 832 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 40% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.1 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (50%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (75%), and Telecommunication (75%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Red Hat Satellite in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (100%), and Product Development (75%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Red Hat Satellite
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.
Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg Request a free demo
Get in touch with the FRATCH team and we will get back to you within 4 hours.
Would you rather directly get in touch?
We always have the time for a call or email!
Philipp Thomaschewski
FRATCH CEO
