Solaris Experts in Hamburg
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Meet FRATCH Experts in Hamburg, who have recently used Solaris
Niko Schmuck
Last position:
Developing Architect, Technical Lead "gridlytics" at HH Energienetze
- Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
- Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
- Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.
Guido Bäcker
Last position:
Independent Management Consultant and Interim Manager at BCTC Unternehmensberatung Guido Bäcker
Consulting, training, and coaching in the financial sector on strategy, organization, and IT topics
MorgenFund: Advising the operator of a fund platform on software selection for a sub-ledger "Cash Accounts" based on Virtual IBANs (VIBAN)
Structuring requirements, market screening, creating RfIs, communicating with vendors, and conducting the selection process
UniCredit/HypoVereinsbank: Workstream lead "Booking and Customer Reporting" in the payment transformation project "PULS"
Business analysis, creating business requirements and aligning solution items as part of the functional specification with the bank's IT service providers
Business analysis of SEPA CT and SWIFT MX (.camt, .pain, and .pacs formats), change management, team lead for a virtual team of fifteen line experts, and stakeholder management
equensWorldline Germany: Program management for three projects of the SWIFT service bureau (CBPR+, ESMIG, and Euro1Step1 migration) as part of the SWIFT MX migration
Managing individual project managers regarding overarching goals and requirements; reporting to internal and external committees and stakeholders; coordinating with dependent projects and programs
Project management/PMO: interim project management, stand-in for project managers, resource planning, budget and cost management, general PMO tasks
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)
Rolf Gardewischke
Last position:
Developer & Designer at Security authorities
- Migration of a case processing system with numerous interfaces to other systems from Spring and Activiti to a Java JEE application
- Further development into a cloud application
- Consulting, development, requirements analysis, specification and design
- Coordination with upstream and downstream systems
- Data modeling, programming and implementation
- Support with code reviews and ensuring clean code in the PL/SQL context
- Documentation in Confluence
- Troubleshooting PL/SQL applications including log analysis, session tracing and performance profiling
- Optimization and tuning measures in the PL/SQL environment
- Knowledge transfer and onboarding of new employees
- Use of Jira for task management, progress tracking and sprint planning
Peter Neumann
Last position:
Pilot testing AI tools & sabbatical for house renovation
- Pilot testing local AI environments to explore local AI use cases and cloud-based AI solutions
- Evaluation of AI tools and techniques
- Use of local AI tools with own data sovereignty
- Prompt engineering
- Creation of example environments for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, text-to-image, text-to-video, and image-to-video
Tools: Grok, Perplexity, ChatGPT, Elevenlabs, Github, Ollama, HuggingFace, Open WebUI, Faster Whisper, LibreTranslate, WSL, Docker Desktop, Shotcut, Audacity, Sound eXchange, Ffmpeg, Coqui TTS, Pinokio, Stable Diffusion Web UI, ComfyUI, OWL, Void Editor
Adrian Hollay
Last position:
Interim Consultant for Oracle Database Migrations to the AWS Cloud at Bank Deutsches Kraftfahrzeuggewerbe GmbH
- Migration of Oracle databases from on-premise to the AWS Cloud
- Support for technical Oracle solutions and cloud database infrastructures (IaaS and PaaS) RDS vs. EC2, sizing for performance
- Creation and maintenance of DR/HA (Disaster Recovery/High Availability) and backup and recovery policies and procedures (multi-region backup)
- Support for Oracle license selection, Enterprise → Standard migration
- Monitoring database instances
- Implementation and maintenance of database security (wallet, SSL)
- Patch management and version control
- Automated installation and configuration of Oracle databases using Terraform and Ansible
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Statistics of experts using Solaris
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
35 years (Germany: 30 years)
Position duration
3.7 years (Germany: 3.5 years)
Positions per freelancer
21
Top business areas
Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Project Management
Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Healthcare
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Operations, Project Management
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 75%)
Master's degree or higher
75% (Germany: 43%)
Certifications per freelancer
2 (Germany: 4)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 98%)
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 Hamburg 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 Hamburg using Solaris
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
Solaris in practice
Solaris is a Unix operating system used for stable server workloads, enterprise infrastructure, and long-lived business systems. Companies still rely on it for core services, storage, and applications that need careful maintenance rather than constant change.
Typical work
- Administration of Oracle Solaris and older Sun Solaris systems
- Patching, upgrades, and release planning
- Troubleshooting boot, storage, and network issues
- Support for legacy applications and batch jobs
- Documentation for handover and operations teams
Core skills
Strong Solaris professionals know Zones, ZFS, SMF, basic shell work, and service control. They also understand permissions, logging, disk layout, backup routines, and how Solaris fits into mixed Unix estates with Linux and virtualized systems.
Tooling and ecosystem
Solaris work often touches Oracle tools, command-line admin utilities, SSH access, and monitoring systems. In many environments in Hamburg, specialists also coordinate with storage, middleware, and database teams because Solaris sits close to the infrastructure layer.
When companies bring help
Freelance expertise is useful during migrations, incident recovery, audits, and end-of-life planning. It is also valuable when an internal team lacks current Solaris experience but still has to keep a critical Sun Solaris or Oracle Solaris platform running without disruption.
What good specialists deliver
- Clear root-cause analysis, not guesswork
- Safe changes with rollback plans
- Practical fixes that fit production constraints
- Clean handover notes for in-house teams
- Calm support for urgent operational issues
Frequently asked questions
What clients ask us most about Solaris — answered in short.
Solaris is still used for enterprise servers, storage-heavy systems, and applications that value stability and predictable operation. It is common in environments with long service lifecycles, strict control over changes, and older workloads that were built for Unix platforms.
Oracle Solaris is the modern name for the platform that many people still call Sun Solaris. The technology lineage matters because older environments, documentation, and scripts often use the Sun name, especially in legacy estates.
Solaris is usually chosen less often for new builds than Linux, but it can still be the right fit where existing tooling, ZFS-based storage designs, or legacy applications depend on it. A strong specialist should explain migration risk, operational impact, and whether staying on Solaris is still sensible.
A good Solaris specialist usually brings shell scripting, TCP/IP networking, storage basics, and clear backup and recovery habits. Knowledge of Zones, SMF, ZFS, and monitoring tools is also important when the work involves production systems.
For simple user, service, or patching tasks, a focused Solaris professional may be enough. For migrations, outages, or old systems with weak documentation, you want someone who has handled production recovery and can work calmly under pressure.
Most Solaris work can be done remotely if secure access, change windows, and good documentation are in place. On-site support in Hamburg helps when hardware checks, data center access, or close coordination with local operations teams is needed.
Look for a Solaris specialist who can explain root cause clearly, describe safe change steps, and document what was done. Good signs are disciplined troubleshooting, familiarity with old and current Solaris releases, and a practical approach to keeping services available.
A Solaris freelancer can own patch plans, upgrade steps, service fixes, storage changes, and recovery runbooks. In many cases they also leave behind documentation that makes future maintenance easier for the internal team.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects is 105 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 838 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 75% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects have 35 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.7 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (17%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (100%), Information Technology (83%), and Healthcare (67%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Hamburg, Germany who have used Solaris in their recent projects are Business Intelligence (100%), Information Technology (100%), and Project Management (100%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Solaris
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