diff --git a/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/main.yml
index a4f24dbb8..77c849601 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/main.yml
@@ -167,3 +167,15 @@
         - "{{ role_path }}/tasks/partials/ntp/{{ os|stripversion }}.yml"
         - "{{ role_path }}/tasks/partials/ntp/{{ os|match_key(ntp_service, raise_error=False) }}.yml"
       skip: true
+
+
+- name: install clang
+  include_tasks: "{{ clang_include }}"
+  loop_control:
+    loop_var: clang_include
+  with_first_found:
+    - files:
+        - "{{ role_path }}/tasks/partials/clang/{{ os }}-{{ arch }}.yml"
+        - "{{ role_path }}/tasks/partials/clang/{{ os }}.yml"
+        - "{{ role_path }}/tasks/partials/clang/{{ os|stripversion }}.yml"
+      skip: true
diff --git a/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/clang/aix.yml b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/clang/aix.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..58a1504e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/baselayout/tasks/partials/clang/aix.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+#
+# Downloads and installs clang
+#
+
+- name: "clang : extract tarball - aix"
+  ansible.builtin.unarchive:
+    src: https://github.com/IBM/llvm-project/releases/download/llvmorg-20.1.7/clang+llvm-20.1.7-powerpc64-ibm-aix-7.2.tar.xz
+    dest: /opt
+    remote_src: yes