SSH Experts in Germany
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Kevin Fischer
Last position:
DevOps and Platform Engineer at DB Systel GmbH
- Error analysis and fixes including performance optimization of the in-house developed platform API
- Change and incident management in day-to-day operations
- Responsible for compliance with security and compliance requirements
- Vendor management for software development and maintenance
- Planning and execution of migration of legacy services to a cloud native platform
Role in the project: project staff, implementation team
Used skills: requirements analysis, IT service and application management, IT operations, error analysis and performance optimization, software maintenance and lifecycle management
Project environment: Cloud Native Platform (Kubernetes, Crossplane, AWS, ArgoCD, Grafana)
Robin Walter Scherler
Last position:
Developer at agentic-engineer.online
agentic-engineer.online is my publicly testable live demo and at the same time the platform where I show my work. Originally created as a recruitment trial task, I have since continued to run it as my own demo, learning, and product project — on a Hetzner VPS behind a Cloudflare tunnel, through a multi-stage AI-orchestrated deploy pipeline with snapshot rollback. If a deploy step breaks, the system falls back to the last clean snapshot, the script is adjusted, the test repeated — empirical, test-driven, without hand tuning.
- Technically behind it: Python and FastAPI, an OpenRouter model cascade, SQLite persistence, and Cloudflare edge tuning.
- I am the developer and the strictest customer of my own AI work in one person — what started as a prototype has become a tool I use every day and against which I test my own products.
Arndt Maas
Last position:
Project Manager for ServiceNow Vulnerability Response at Union Investment Services & IT GmbH
- Led the subproject for implementing Vulnerability Response as part of DORA
- Documented the current processes in compliance, risk & security
- Created the functional design for introducing application, infrastructure, and cloud vulnerabilities
- Agile management of the integration service provider, the technical department, and the company's cross-functional teams
- Integrated the V scanners Tenable, Qualys and Defender, as well as NVD and CISA/KEV
- Integrated GitLab Ultimate for importing and processing SBOMs
- Developed automation rules to match scan results with CIs in the CMDB, assign vulnerabilities and remediation tasks, handle approvals (false positives, exceptions) and closures
- Calculated multiple risk scores and priorities
- Defined dashboards and reports (Workspaces, Performance Analytics)
- Aligned the new processes, especially to improve the CMDB data quality (according to CSDM)
Thomas Hoefkens
Last position:
Senior MLOps, DevOps Engineer at Trianel Energy
- Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
- Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
- Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
- Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
- Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
- Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
- Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
- Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
- Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
- Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
- Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
- Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
- Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).
Mukund Biradar
Last position:
Voice AI Chatbot - Real-Time Audio Assistant
- ▶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.
Marko Oršolić
Last position:
System Administrator in a 6-person Team at FITS
- System administration of FreeBSD 11, 12 and 13.1 in a secure cloud software solution
- Administration of proxy servers for FITS and its clients, banks and state banks
- Administration of secure internet solutions
- Administration of secure mail solutions and mail gateways
- Administration of Apache 2.4 web servers
- Planning and maintenance of servers and network components in FNT Command
- Incident, change and ticket handling, especially troubleshooting network issues using Splunk and ARS
- Troubleshooting and log file analysis using Splunk Enterprise
- Monitoring with Nagios
- Ordering, provisioning and installation of certificates on Apache web servers, Nginx web servers and load balancers
- Hardware: HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 and 10, Cisco Catalyst
- Software: FreeBSD 11, 12 and 13.2, FNT Command, shell scripts, MySQL databases, ServiceNow, ARS, Splunk Enterprise 8.15
Tarek El Idrisi
Last position:
Associate GRC at Egerer Consulting
Carve-out project: Development of certification strategy, implementation and requirement plans across multiple standards — ISO/IEC 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 22301, ISO/IEC 20000-1, BSI IT-Grundschutz, and BSI TR-RESISCAN
- Cross-standard inventory and risk assessment
- Coordination with cross-department stakeholders: ISB, executive management, certification bodies, legal and data protection
- Consulting in information security, GRC, and IT auditing
Matthias Lamsfuss
Last position:
Full Stack & AI Engineer at Elephant Technologies
Loom and Bloom
Python · TypeScript · n8n · Claude Code · Whisper · Gemini · Supabase · Notion · HubSpot · Digital Ocean
- Built an end-to-end content pipeline: one Loom video → marketing images, bilingual LinkedIn posts, newsletter and Help Center updates.
- n8n webhook → SSH → Claude Code session on a Digital Ocean VPS; three MCP servers (video, Notion, Supabase).
- Whisper word-level transcription, ffmpeg screenshots, Gemini UI annotation, PIL device mockups.
- Next.js upload UI plus a bilingual newsletter composer with HubSpot push.
Frank Bergmann
Last position:
System Engineer at Frequentis Comsoft
- Migrate company software to RHEL10
- Development in Bash, Python, C, Ansible
Alex Odesser
Last position:
Contractor at Telefonica Germany GmbH & Co. OHG
- Data-analysis, Preparation, gathering and coordination of business requirements for retrieval of monthly- and long term (CLV – relevant) cost- and revenue-components per contract for a customer–base–grouping project (HUB–Project) for B2C-Postpaid-Controlling
- Concept and Implementation of cost- and revenue-KPIs calculation and corresponding CLV–reports (Oracle, Perl, SVN, MS SQL Server, MS Power BI, Serviceware Performance Analytics)
- Operational support of the HUB-Project – various ad-hoc reports, deployments, job-scheduling etc. (Oracle, SVN, BICSuite–Scheduler, DWSODA etc.)
- Analysis, implementation, retrieval and reporting of various physical and financial KPIs for B2P-Prepaid Business on an existing data-mart (Oracle, Perl)
Patrick Waldschmitt
Last position:
AI Software Engineer at IppenMedia
- Analysis
- Consulting
- Software design
- Development
- Automation
- Testing
- Deployment
- Architecture, development and deployment of various proof-of-concept applications around the integration of current AI interfaces including conversational, realtime voice, images and videos
- Developed best practices for working with agentic systems and AI in practice
- Created code templates
Hichem Blagui
Last position:
IT Security Consultant & Data Engineer / Freelancer at datadefend GmbH
- Analysis and further development of the security architecture.
- Design and development of Splunk apps and technical add-ons (TAs).
- Development and implementation of security use cases in the Splunk SIEM.
- Creation and maintenance of incident response playbooks in Cortex XSOAR.
- Support of technical proof-of-concepts to assess new detection technologies.
- Lifecycle management and operational support for Splunk and Cribl systems.
- Deployment and scaling of Splunk indexers in hybrid data center environments.
- Maintenance, update planning, and optimization of Cribl Stream & Edge for log ingestion and data routing.
- Creation of dashboards and reports to visualize security posture and system availability.
- Technical analysis to assess network topologies and data flows.
- Integration of new data sources via Cribl Stream/Edge and heavy forwarders in cloud and on-prem environments.
- Integration of external security components such as Cortex XSOAR (SOAR) and user behavior analytics (UBA).
- Implementation of complex correlation rules in Splunk Enterprise Security (ES).
- Connection of external ticketing systems via mail gateways and REST APIs.
- Automated deployment of use cases, dashboards, and detection rules via Git and Ansible.
Tobias Holtkamp
Last position:
SAP Technology Expert / SAP BO Basis Administrator at Talanx AG/ HDI Versicherung
- Incident Management
- User management: creating, maintaining, and deactivating users as well as maintaining roles
- Updates and upgrades: planning and executing updates and upgrades
- Operations: performance analysis, daily monitoring, and applying SNotes
- Job management: creating, maintaining, and monitoring jobs
- Training of employees
- Development and extension of reports
- Development and extension of universes
- Technologies: SAP BusinessObjects (SAP BO 4.3), Oracle SQL Developer, SAP Information Design Tool, Octane
- Methods: Scrum
Werner Keil
Last position:
Test Coordinator, Designer and Engineer at IBM
- Testing the SekIDP and related components
- Test design, execution and automation, microservices, GitHub Enterprise, Eclipse, Katalon Test Platform, API Testing, Confluence 8, JIRA/Xray, Draw.io, Swagger/OpenAPI, Postman, Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, PuTTY, E-Health, Telematik, Gematik standards, EPA, E-Rezept, sektoraler IDP, encryption, XaDES, PaDES, DICOM, HL7, FHIR, IHE, ICD, SSO, SAML/Shibboleth, OAuth, smartcards, JWT, two factor authentication Android and iOS, Wireshark, BrowserStack, Cypress, gRPC, REST, SOAP, WS-Security, Linux Shell, PowerShell, SSH/SSL, Java, Kotlin, Cordova, Gradle, Groovy, Python, TypeScript
Daniel Stopp
Last position:
Frontend and Web Developer at Datalyze Solutions
- Frontend development and implementation of various designs (landing pages, overview pages)
- Responsible for the content and updates of the Datalyze Solutions company website
- Joint planning and development of an admin application for listing and locating real estate projects (CBRE)
- Joint planning and development of extensive solutions for automatic staff allocation in plants (Bosch)
- Backend development of various small projects with different stacks
- Tech stack: GitLab CI/CD, Elixir, Phoenix Framework, Ecto, PostgreSQL, Docker, Hetzner, Traefik, NGINX, Python, Flask, Next.js/React, Leaflet, GeoServer, TypeScript, MongoDB
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Statistics of experts using SSH
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, Product Development, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Manufacturing
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
87%
Master's degree or higher
68%
Doctorate
16%
Certifications per freelancer
3
Most common languages
English, German, Spanish
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 SSH
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
Secure access
SSH is the standard way to connect to remote systems over encrypted channels. Companies use it for shell access, file transfer, port forwarding, and secure admin work on Linux and Unix environments. It is also common in cloud operations and managed infrastructure.
What experts deliver
- Key-based login setup and hardening
- Bastion host and jump server design
- Secure file transfer with SFTP and SCP
- SSH tunneling and port forwarding
- Access control and audit support
Tooling and ecosystem
Strong SSH specialists work across OpenSSH, PuTTY, certificates, and key management tooling. They understand config files, agent forwarding, known_hosts handling, and host key rotation. In Germany, they often support teams that need secure remote work for internal systems, partners, or distributed operations.
When to bring in help
Bring in freelance expertise when access is brittle, keys are unmanaged, or server entry points need a reset. It also helps during cloud migrations, incident response, or when teams need clean, documented remote access for multiple environments. A good specialist reduces risk without slowing operations.
What strong professionals do
- Replace password logins with safer workflows
- Reduce exposed ports and unnecessary access paths
- Document standards for teams and vendors
- Troubleshoot connection, cipher, and permission issues
- Align server access with ops and security needs
Common project areas
SSH work often appears in Linux server administration, DevOps pipelines, secure deployment flows, and remote support for production systems. It is also part of backup jobs, file sync tasks, and controlled access to cloud instances. Good experts keep the setup simple, predictable, and easy to maintain.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about SSH? Start with the answers below.
SSH is used for secure remote login, command execution, file transfer, and port forwarding. It is the normal way to manage Linux and Unix servers without sending credentials in plain text. Many teams also use it for automation, deployment jobs, and controlled access to cloud instances.
SSH is best for secure command-line access and administration on server systems. VPNs open broader network access, while RDP is mainly for graphical remote desktops on Windows. A strong specialist can help you choose the right mix instead of forcing SSH to solve every access need.
A strong SSH specialist usually knows Linux, network basics, key management, and shell scripting. They should also understand OpenSSH, SFTP, bastion hosts, and common hardening steps. In many projects, familiarity with cloud platforms and CI/CD tools is also useful.
SSH tasks can look simple, but the right setup depends on your systems, users, and security rules. For a small server fix, a specialist may need only a clear access path and host details. For broader access design, they need to understand environments, approval flows, and who must connect from where.
Yes, SSH work is often done remotely because the tasks are usually configuration, review, or troubleshooting. For companies in Germany, remote collaboration is common as long as access, language, and change-control rules are clear. On-site help is mainly useful for sensitive environments or complex internal network setups.
Look for clear security choices, clean documentation, and a setup that is easy to operate later. A good SSH expert explains why key handling, host verification, and least-privilege access matter. They should also leave behind practical notes for rotation, recovery, and day-to-day use.
Yes, SSH is still central in many infrastructure stacks, especially for Linux servers, automation, and secure file transfer. Cloud consoles and zero trust tools can reduce some direct access needs, but they do not remove the need for solid SSH design. In practice, the best setups make SSH part of a broader access model.
They want to know what systems are involved, whether they are working with OpenSSH, PuTTY, or hosted environments, and how access approvals work. They also need to understand if the job is a quick fix, a hardening task, or a full access redesign. Clear scope helps a SSH specialist deliver faster and avoid risky assumptions.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used SSH in their recent projects is 95 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 759 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used SSH in their recent projects, 87% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 68% hold at least a Master's degree, and 16% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used SSH 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 Germany who have used SSH in their recent projects are English (100%), German (98%), and Spanish (14%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used SSH in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (50%), and Manufacturing (50%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used SSH in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Product Development (76%), and Quality Assurance (67%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used SSH
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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