Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund Tech Stack
German federal pension administration securing critical infrastructure at scale
Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund operates mission-critical pension and social security systems across Germany with a 27,500-person workforce. The tech stack reveals a hardened, air-gapped infrastructure posture: Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, and Cisco Firewall at the perimeter; Kubernetes, OpenShift, and container orchestration (Helm, ArgoCD, Rancher) in the core; and SIEM, EDR, and SOAR for endpoint and threat detection. Active hiring in engineering and security roles, plus projects around zero-trust access, web application firewall deployment, and OpenShift maintenance in air-gapped environments, signal a shift from perimeter defense toward identity-based security and modernized container infrastructure.
Tech Stack 35 technologies
What Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund Is Building
◆Challenges
- Protecting critical digital infrastructure
- High availability of it services
- Minimizing risk of unauthorized access
- Migrating applications to data center
- Secure and performant infrastructure operation
- Cost predictability
- Cloud architecture optimization
- Compliance with regulations
- Optimizing existing security monitoring systems
- Integrating new data sources
▲Active Projects
- Zero trust access model implementation
- Web application firewall deployment
- Cloud security strategy implementation
- Openshift landscape maintenance in air-gapped environment
- New feature implementation in openshift infrastructure
- Migration of applications to data center
- Operation of central base services
- Emergency testing
- Endpoint protection environment planning
- Disaster recovery planning for endpoint protection
