IBM Tivoli Experts in Germany
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Germany, who have recently used IBM Tivoli
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
Thomas Pätzold
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
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
Andreas Fischer
Last position:
Project Manager & Portfolio Owner for Infrastructure (Automotive) at MHP Management- und IT-Beratung GmbH
- Overall coordination of service providers for all infrastructure topics at a production site being set up in Baden-Württemberg
- Design and finding solutions for internet connectivity, building office communication networks, setting up WLAN in production and administration buildings, IP address management, password policies, time tracking, access control systems, backup strategies, emergency power planning, operating concepts, cost planning, event management, workplace setup including laptop/mobile phones/telephony, remote support, print servers
- Selecting suitable external service providers and planning to meet needs for spare parts, repairs, on-site service, network and workplace support including on-site system replacement by providers
- Choosing suitable external service providers for facility management and building technology (fiber optic connections, data center infrastructure, cable ducts etc.)
- Coordination with clients and service providers
- Escalation management, schedule control
- On-site presence for service meetings and managing service providers
Alex Glasneck
Last position:
Strategy Consultant - Digital. Brand. Experience. at FREELANCE
- Developing brand, social & digital strategies for brands and agencies, e.g. “Hypoport I&P brand strategy” (09/2022), “MAN Social Media Strategy” (03/2022, Accenture Song).
- Interim leading strategy teams, e.g. ‘Head of Strategy’ (01-05/2021, We are social).
- Planning & facilitating design sprint workshops for brands, e.g. “Router finder”, incl. prototype development (02/2020, AVM).
Adem Susam
Last position:
IT Consultant (Test Manager) & CEO at Trikolon Consulting GmbH
- Development and implementation of test concepts for complex, multi-layered systems
- Creation of regular management reports and presentations for stakeholders and clients
- Technical and disciplinary leadership of international test teams (coordination, coaching, resource planning)
- Responsibility for quality assurance across multiple test levels (unit, integration, system, and acceptance tests)
- Design of test cases and test plans in Azure DevOps; ensuring traceability and coverage
- Use of BDD approaches (Gherkin/Cucumber) to prepare test automation
- Building a test automation architecture with Playwright and integrating new tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Performing API tests (REST) and tests for mobile/PWA applications
- Setup and maintenance of test environments across multiple stages (integration, QA, UAT, pre-production)
- Test data management (synthetic and production-like data), ensuring consistency and reproducibility
- Collaboration with DevOps teams for containerization (Docker/OpenShift) and CI/CD integration
- Working under SAFe & Scrum, closely coordinating with product owners and DevOps teams
- Active participation in PI plannings, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Promoting an agile QA culture through coaching and knowledge sharing
- Introducing scalable test automation with Playwright → significant reduction of manual testing efforts
- Increasing test transparency through clean defect and reporting management in Azure DevOps
- Improved release quality through an end-to-end QA strategy and automated regression tests
- Strategic leadership of Trikolon Consulting GmbH and responsibility for finance, personnel, and business development
Michael Pangerl
Last position:
Windows Client Engineer (120k users) at UniCredit S.p.A.
- Rolling out M365 in a complex environment
- Hybrid environments with Entra Hybrid Join and pre-provisioning
- Packaging with PowerShell Deployment Toolkit
- Troubleshooting / last-level support
- Co-management with SCCM
- Developing packages and scripts for Intune Autopilot
- Migration planning from network file shares to OneDrive / Teams
- Introducing user profile management with OneDrive
- Windows operating system design
- GPO design for the operating system and other applications
- Browser design and configuration
- OS upgrade planning (Windows 10 20H2-22H2 / Windows 11 22H2-24H2)
- Application lifecycle management / application ownership
Roman Blazecka
Last position:
Lead SAN/Storage & Backup Consultant / Architect at Daimler/Mercedes-Benz
- Led a small team of Storage/Backup consultants responsible for EMEA region data center transformation across 200 DCs
- Developed and defended HLD and LLD designs for SAN (Brocade), block storage (HPE Primera/Alletra), NAS (EMC Unity), object storage (Iternity with iCAS FS), and backup (Commvault)
- Performed build and configuration of ~25 data centers, coordinating with network, compute, and security teams
- Developed new processes and standards for infrastructure builds and finalized hardware purchases and BOM preparation
- Created and executed testing approach including DR tests, and handed over builds to operation and migration teams
- Trained other storage consultants to ensure SLA compliance
- Technologies: Brocades, HPE/IBM/EMC/NetApp/CEPH, vSAN, NSX, TSM, Veeam, Commvault, tape libraries, drives & VTLs
Srinivasan Gowrishanker
Last position:
Senior Director, Customer Experience at Unknown Company
- Architected and scaled the global professional services and presales organization from the ground up, taking full P&L ownership to drive customer onboarding, delivery, and expansion.
- Built & empowered high impact teams.
- Automated delivery & efficiency of internal tools & processes using AI & established structured customer advocacy programs.
- Established strategic framework for tracking, improving key metrics: Revenue (Recurring & One-time), Profitability, OB Churn & Net Retention, CSAT, LTV, TTV, eNPS, & created robust reference account networks.
Georg Danebrock
Last position:
Senior Project Manager at Apleona GmbH
- Project review, restructuring, and PM for the migration of a total of 12,000 Windows workplace systems (650 applications) from SCCM and Empirum/Matrix42 to MS-Intune after a merger.
- Took over a heavily delayed / not ideally managed project in the role of the "firefighter".
- Completely revised and adjusted/updated the planning of the customer and the involved service provider.
- Introduced planning baselining as well as tracking/mitigation of current risks.
- Introduced an efficient, partially automated planning/reporting interface between MS Project Planning (service provider) and Jira (customer).
- Restructured meetings to increase efficiency and remove redundant appointments.
- Completed the analysis and design phase and created base data for migrations from heterogeneous systems of the two merged companies.
- Started the User Acceptance Test (UAT).
- Technologies: MS Autopilot, Zero Touch.
Alexander Bojko
Last position:
IT Specialist SAN at Self-Employed
Administration of Brocade SAN
Optimization of processes in the Pure Storage environment
Automation in the storage environment
Administration of block, file and S3 storage (NetApp / Pure Flash Blade)
Software/Tools: BNA, SANnav, bash, python, Remedy ARS
Peter Voloshin
Last position:
IT Consultant at Evotec KG
- Operation and administration of Windows 2016 / 2019 servers and domains
- Infrastructure services (Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, Group Policies)
- Consulting, support and troubleshooting of customer systems
- Documentation and concept design in the area of MS Active Directory
- Updating operation, process and system documentation
- Ticket handling (remote analysis and resolution via incident, change and problem management)
- Technologies: Windows 2022, Active Directory, ADFS, AD Azure Connect, DHCP, DNS, GPO, VMware vSphere, CheckMK, Exchange 2019, PowerShell, Jira, Confluence, Office 365, Matrix42, NetApp, Ansible
Marco Fischer
Last position:
System Engineer–Vmware, Veeam at DCSO
- About 800 different server VMs, operation and lifecycle/asset management of about 40 ESXi hosts (Lenovo)
- Upgrade of all clusters to ESXi/VCSA 7.0U3 and 8. Planning patch management for all hosts
- Cleaning up the AD – many different domains that all needed to be migrated into the main environment. Planning/execution
- Veeam – check the configuration and migrate to a newer, partly virtual infrastructure to make the setup leaner and faster
- VMware – upgrades/updates, general maintenance
- Proxmox POC – evaluate if an alternative to VMware
- Documentation for Veeam/VMware/storage
- Implementation of the uniflow cloud solution
- NetApp migration to new storage, CIFS maintenance and administration of SVMs
Jürgen Bargmann
Last position:
Database Administrator and Performance Tuning Specialist at ALD Automotive Leasing Deutschland
- Database administration and performance tuning for Oracle databases on AIX 7.1, 7.2 with Oracle 12c and 19c
- Troubleshooting and resolution on RHEL 7
- Automation of operations with UNIX/Linux shell scripts, Perl programs, and PL/SQL
- Planning, preparation, execution, and customer-specific review of changes and upgrades for the LEASMAN and DOXIS applications
- Incident handling including communication with outsourcing service providers and business units
- Data exchange with Data Pump
- Visualization of database content and monitoring results
- Configuration of databases for Debezium and monitoring Debezium activities
- Preparation of Oracle databases for migration to cloud environments
- Implementation and monitoring of NIST requirements in databases
- Automation of release upgrades for the LEASMAN application
- Creation of operations manuals and instructions
- Generation of reports for GDPR information requests
Christopher Eshemokhai
Last position:
Senior Oracle DBA and WebLogic Administrator, Oracle Business Intelligence for Applications
- Oracle databases 11g, 12c and 19c RAC
- Installation, configuration and deployment of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g & 12c (WebLogic, SOA, Oracle Forms and Report Server, etc., OBIA)
- Administration of Oracle 11g, 12c, RAC and 19c
- Applying patches
- Installation, configuration and deployment of Tomcat
- Oracle tuning
- The system includes several production, QA, test & development Oracle databases and WebLogic application servers 11g & 12c
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Statistics of experts using IBM Tivoli
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
27 years
Position duration
2.2 years
Positions per freelancer
20
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
71%
Master's degree or higher
47%
Doctorate
12%
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 IBM Tivoli
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
IBM Tivoli scope
IBM Tivoli is a long-running enterprise software family for IT operations, monitoring, asset control, storage management, and service management. Companies still use it to keep complex IBM and mixed environments stable, traceable, and supported.
Where it fits
It is common in large landscapes that run older but critical systems, especially where z/OS, UNIX, AIX, or hybrid infrastructure must stay observable and controlled. Tivoli often appears in operations teams that need clear alerts, job control, backup workflows, and structured incident handling.
Typical work
- Install and maintain Tivoli components
- Tune monitoring rules and alerts
- Support Tivoli Storage Manager backup setups
- Integrate with ticketing, inventory, and security tools
- Document operational procedures and handovers
Skills that matter
Strong IBM Tivoli professionals understand the product family, not just one tool. They know how to troubleshoot agent communication, manage configuration changes, read logs, and keep old and new infrastructure working together without disrupting operations.
When to bring help
Companies usually bring in freelance IBM Tivoli specialists during upgrades, migrations, audits, or recovery work. They are also valuable when in-house knowledge is thin, a system is poorly documented, or an old Tivoli setup must stay reliable while the wider stack changes.
Germany projects
In Germany, IBM Tivoli work often sits close to regulated industry and large enterprise operations. Remote collaboration is common for analysis, documentation, and support, while on-site access may still matter when legacy systems, secured networks, or local operations processes are involved.
Frequently asked questions
Need clarity? These are the questions we hear most often about IBM Tivoli.
IBM Tivoli is used to monitor systems, manage backups, handle assets, and support service operations across complex enterprise environments. Many teams still rely on it for stable control of older IBM and mixed infrastructure that remains important to daily business.
Tivoli is the broader product family, while IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Tivoli Storage Manager are specific products within that ecosystem. In practice, companies often search with any of these names when they need help on monitoring, backup, or operations tasks.
IBM Tivoli is usually compared with newer observability and infrastructure management tools when a company is maintaining legacy systems. Newer tools may offer cleaner interfaces, but Tivoli remains relevant where existing integrations, processes, and platform dependencies are already built around it.
A strong IBM Tivoli specialist often also knows Linux, UNIX, AIX, scripting, incident tooling, and basic network and storage concepts. For storage-focused work, experience with backup workflows and restore testing is especially useful.
Most IBM Tivoli projects need someone who has handled real operational setups, not just read the documentation. The right specialist should be able to diagnose agent issues, understand configuration drift, and keep production work safe during changes.
Many IBM Tivoli tasks can be done remotely, especially analysis, documentation, rule tuning, and support coordination. On-site work becomes more important when access to secured systems, local admin procedures, or legacy hardware is required.
Look for clear examples of deployments, troubleshooting, upgrades, and handovers in IBM Tivoli environments. Good specialists explain trade-offs plainly, document changes well, and show how they reduced operational risk rather than only listing product names.
Companies usually seek IBM Tivoli specialists for migrations, failing alerts, backup issues, old monitoring setups, or knowledge gaps after staff changes. They often need help keeping critical operations stable while modernizing parts of the environment.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects is 100 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 796 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects, 71% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 47% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects have 27 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (43%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Banking and Finance (86%), and Automotive (52%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used IBM Tivoli in their recent projects are Information Technology (95%), Operations (90%), and Project Management (81%).
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