IBM AIX Experts in Germany
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Burhan Dinler
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
Gerhard Kolar
Last position:
Senior Project Manager and Construction Manager at HENSOLDT Optronics GmbH
- Building the data center in Oberkochen (defense area)
- Planning the fiber optic ring, simulation of Wi-Fi coverage
- Cable routing plan for WAN and LAN cables for office and production (infrastructure)
- Adaptation of the SAP system (R3) for the Oberkochen site (software)
- IT transformation of the SAP system to SAP HANA
- Planning network infrastructure and server technologies in the SAP environment
- Pré-sales support and setting up change management
- Independent coordination of utilities according to time, budget and quality
- Mapping the project in MS Project and SERVICENow
- Development and design of hardware and software
- Demand management and portfolio management
- Building a risk register and migration plan
- Preparation of payment-supporting documents in coordination with the responsible finance and commercial functions
- Budget: 5 Mio. - 34 FTE
Robert Karash
Last position:
Interim Manager | Group Leader in the IT Operations & Digitalization Division "Databases, Operations & Support" (DOS) at Landwirtschaftliche RentenBank
- Technical leadership and further development of a team of 28 IT staff (internal & external) in the areas HelpDesk/HelpLine, RHEL (Red Hat), MUREX (trading system & applications), SAP basis operations
- Managing external service providers (including FI-TS for SAP basis operations)
- Personnel, resource and budget planning for the IT department and projects
- Introducing and establishing regular communication formats (weekly status meetings, team and cross-department meetings)
- Ensuring application operations in a hybrid environment (Windows/Linux with database and web/application servers)
- Supporting transformation projects to modernize the application landscape (e.g. DevOps approaches)
- Setting up and implementing a digital IT procurement for hardware & software (e.g. with DELL)
- Developing and managing the "IT Operations DOS" department based on corporate strategy
- Preparing management reports & decision papers on IT projects, optimization potential and automation opportunities
- Representing the department in the advisory boards of the Rentenbank and ensuring regulatory compliance (BaFin §44, GDPR, BSI, MaRisk)
Alexander Zhirov
Last position:
Senior Data Solutions Engineer at VMware Inc.
- Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
- Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
- Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
- Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.
Kai Pankatz
Last position:
Oracle Project Management and DBA at Scope Solutions AG
- Installation, maintenance and regular upgrade of the DB systems with 19x
- Use of OPatch and RU 19.27 on RHEL 8x, SLES 15.x and Windows
- DBA for DACH and European customers in production and last test environments (e.g. Konrad Adenauer) as well as others in CDB
- Processes via Confluence
- Support in operations for customers SR via Metalink
Ramy Saad
Last position:
Integration Manager at Produktion und Logistik
Senior IT Integration Manager for an international transformation program, focusing on IT integration, data migration, stakeholder management, dependency steering, governance and management reporting.
Bullet points
- Steering IT integration and transformation activities in an international enterprise environment
- Coordination between business, IT, specialist departments and external service providers
- Planning and tracking roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and risks
- Preparing status reports, decision papers and management updates
Mathilde Schmitt
Last position:
Senior Project Manager at SER Solutions Deutschland GmbH
- Software implementation projects for banks, insurance companies, and trade
Olaf Taesch
Last position:
BI Architect in a Kanban Team at Gulp / Randstad for HHLA
- Creation of automated tests.
- Extension of the functionality of the enterprise BI data warehouse.
- Design and development in SQL and PL/SQL.
- Data modeling as well as performance measurement and tuning.
- Creation of and contribution to user stories and concepts.
- Technical environment: Windows, Linux.
- Database: Oracle 19c incl. DWH, CDB, PDB.
- Tools: Confluence, CVS, Eclipse, Git, GitLab, Jira, N4, PL/SQL, SQL Developer, utPLSQL.
Ulf Haase
Last position:
Configuration Manager (Interim) at In-house Development
- Requirements analysis and replacement of local SharePoint as CMDB with open source NetBox to prepare for deploying Cisco ACI (SD-WAN) with Microsoft Azure
- Coordination with systems like Checkmk and Grasp
- Introduction and coordination of cmdbsyncer as CMDB data hub; further development of the syncer with Kuhn & Ruess GmbH
- Implementation of SNMPv3 on AIX LPAR/VIO, Linux, Windows, SAN/storage, network components (Cisco switches, F5 load balancers, Palo Alto and CheckPoint firewalls, iLO boards)
- Deployment and further development of the network scanner JDisc in cooperation with the vendor (Utimaco HSMs, Linux detection)
- Integration of NetBox, JDisc, and cmdbsyncer into the infrastructure using Docker containers
- End-user training: preparation, creation of materials, and delivery
- Creation of data flow and network diagrams
- Population and planning of IPv4/IPv6 with NetBox including VLAN import
- Dual-stack setup of servers and clients with IPv4 and IPv6
- Connection of REST interfaces for Checkmk, JDisc, vSphere, HMC, i-doit, NetBox Software: Confluence, Jira, MS Office 365, Teams, i-doit, NetBox, JDisc, cmdbsyncer, DB Visualizer, vSphere, HMC
Mike Krüger
Last position:
Consultant at Capgemini
- Operation, administration, and further development of an Oracle 21c database environment on Oracle Linux, including performance analysis, troubleshooting, and PL/SQL
- Setup and operation of a Kubernetes environment on AWS (EKS)
Skills: Oracle 21c DBA, Oracle Linux, Kubernetes, AWS
Stefan Marx
Last position:
Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer
- Design, planning and execution of complex acceptance tests for a document exchange platform for the German justice authorities.
- Validation of decrypted and certificate-based message exchange via web platform, mobile app, and Java API.
- Documentation of test cases, execution steps, and test results.
- Technologies: Windows 11/10, Ubuntu, iOS, Android, Bash for Windows, Java 17, IntelliJ, Git, Jira, Confluence, Citrix Server, xJustiz standard implementation, specific justice software.
Mustafa Kederoglu
Last position:
Senior Network Design and Engineer at Helaba
Designed and specified the technical network integration of a new business-critical application system (MUREX) in the capital markets area in a complex interface and outsourcing environment.
Created component specifications, a catalog of measures and an implementation plan.
Ensured proper integration of the developed results in line with the bank’s framework: IT compliance, IT security, change and release management.
Selected and integrated a new service provider for the bank; moved critical bank applications to the provider.
Designed, implemented and supported the new Cisco network and Fortinet security setup at the service provider data center.
Acted as technical interface between the bank, service providers and consulting partners.
Supported and further developed the network and security infrastructure (clients, servers, networks); performed error analysis and implemented solutions within agreed service levels.
Analyzed and diagnosed all security and network failures, glitches and malfunctions.
Initiated continuous improvements to ensure efficient resource use and acceptable response times for users.
Provided network support in a financial services organization and prepared operational changes on production banking network infrastructure for both large and small projects within strict change management discipline.
Designed, defined, tested, governed and improved engineering standards.
Performed the role of network architect for medium to large projects involving team resources.
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)
Tobias Rudolph
Last position:
M&A IT Project Manager / Cross-functional Technical and Integration Manager at Sandoz AG
- Worked for several M&A projects (Eire, Sunshine C, Coral) in the role of IT project manager and cross-functional technical manager / integration manager.
- Preparation and maintenance of project charters, project change requests and project plans.
- Weekly project status report.
- Preparation of decision papers and steering committee slidedecks.
- Risk & issue management.
- Tracking and managing activities, dependencies and deliverables across all functional IT domains.
- Data migration (planning and execution).
Ulm Paunel
Last position:
DataStage ETL Expert at ING Bank
- Datastage 11.7, dbt, Oracle 19, Python 3.12 / PySpark 3.5, Azure GitHub, Azure DevOps, Automic
- Development of migration jobs to transfer data from the collection DWH to the new Risk Mart, as well as development of ETL pipelines to migrate historical data from the old Mart to the new Risk Mart.
- Storage of the silver layer on Hadoop and the gold layer in Oracle.
- Translation of DataStage jobs into dbt to publish reporting data in Google Cloud to a PostgreSQL database.
- Creation and optimization of complex SQL queries for data extraction from a data vault, taking into account historical data in the point-in-time tables.
- Creation of Oracle table definitions (DDL) and adjustment of existing stored procedures.
- Versioning changes in GitHub and deployment via the CI/CD portal.
- Refactoring long-running DataStage jobs into Python using PySpark to reduce server load.
- Migration of SAS scripts to PL/SQL, including new development of distribution functions that have no direct equivalent in Oracle.
- Development of Automic jobs to run DataStage pipelines and Python scripts (PySpark jobs) that control the population of the SME and institutional risk tables in the Risk Mart and perform business calculations.
- Participation in the agile process, including creating user stories, estimations, and planning in Azure DevOps.
- Handling Azure DevOps tickets and close collaboration with testers and business teams for error analysis and resolution.
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Statistics of experts using IBM AIX
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
30 years
Position duration
3.2 years
Positions per freelancer
21
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Telecommunication
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Operations
Bachelor's degree or higher
73%
Master's degree or higher
34%
Doctorate
5%
Certifications per freelancer
4
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
96%
Based on our profile pool as of 30 Aug 2026.
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Average rates of experts in Germany using IBM AIX
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
What AIX is
IBM AIX is IBM’s UNIX operating system for Power Systems. Companies use it for core workloads that need stability, clear change control, and long service life. It often sits behind finance, manufacturing, logistics, and other business-critical services.
Typical work
- Operating AIX servers on IBM Power hardware
- Tuning performance, storage, and networking
- Managing users, security, and shell automation
- Supporting backups, restores, and disaster recovery
- Planning upgrades, fixes, and maintenance windows
Core ecosystem
AIX work usually touches PowerVM, LPARs, NIM, HMC, and IBM storage stacks. Strong specialists also know JFS2, LDAP, TCP/IP, and common command-line tools used for administration and troubleshooting. They can work across hybrid estates where AIX connects to Linux, SAN, and enterprise identity systems.
When to bring in help
Freelance experts are useful when a team needs short-term coverage, a migration plan, or support during incidents. They also help when internal staff know the business but need deeper AIX-specific experience for performance issues, kernel-level checks, or rollback planning. In Germany, this often matters for large enterprises with mixed on-site and remote operations.
What strong specialists do
Good AIX professionals work methodically. They read logs, verify dependencies, test changes, and document what they touch. They should be comfortable with IBM documentation, change management, and the limits of older enterprise software that still depends on AIX.
Signs you need AIX expertise
- A server is slow, unstable, or hard to patch
- You are moving workloads between Power environments
- Backups, booting, or storage paths need review
- An old application still depends on AIX
- Internal knowledge is thin after staff changes
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about IBM AIX — answered in short.
IBM AIX is used to run business-critical UNIX workloads on IBM Power Systems. Companies rely on it for stable application servers, batch processing, databases, and integration services that need careful uptime and change control.
AIX is usually chosen where IBM Power hardware, long-lived enterprise software, or existing UNIX operations already matter. Compared with Linux, it is more tightly tied to IBM tooling and administrative patterns, while compared with other UNIX systems it is often selected for specific legacy estates and Power-based designs.
A strong IBM AIX specialist usually also knows PowerVM, LPARs, NIM, HMC, storage, and networking basics. Shell scripting, troubleshooting, backup and restore work, and change management are important too because AIX tasks often span the full server stack.
A good AIX expert can start with a focused brief, but they need clear system roles, change windows, and dependency details. The more legacy the environment is, the more valuable it is to share diagrams, run books, and recent incident history before work begins.
For many IBM AIX tasks, remote work is enough if access, approvals, and logging are well set up. On-site presence can still help during hardware work, data center changes, or high-risk recovery steps, especially in larger German enterprise environments.
Look for clear reasoning, not just command knowledge. A strong AIX professional explains why a change is needed, what could break, how they will test it, and how they will roll back if something fails.
Companies bring in IBM AIX freelancers for incident support, upgrades, migrations, performance tuning, and knowledge transfer. They are also useful when internal teams need help keeping older but critical systems healthy while other parts of the estate move to newer platforms.
Yes, a IBM AIX specialist can help map workloads, check dependencies, and plan a safe move to Linux or another target platform. They are valuable in discovery and cutover work because they understand how old UNIX applications behave and where hidden risks usually appear.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects is 102 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 814 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects, 73% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 34% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects have 30 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects are German (100%), English (96%), and French (32%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (78%), and Telecommunication (57%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM AIX in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (81%), and Operations (65%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used IBM AIX
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