Highlights
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise VMware virtualization platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and related ecosystem components. Lead VMware cluster management activities, including host deployment, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Aurora, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://q1tech.com/ |
Description
Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
Roles & Responsibilities
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
- Administer, maintain, monitor, and support enterprise VMware virtualization platforms, including vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, and related ecosystem components.
- Design, install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot VMware infrastructure across production, DR, and test environments.
- Lead VMware cluster management activities, including host deployment, lifecycle management, capacity planning, and hardware refresh initiatives.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting of ESXi hosts, virtual machines, storage, networking, HA, DRS, vMotion, and vSAN-related issues.
- Manage VMware patching, upgrades, security hardening, and vulnerability remediation activities while ensuring minimal business disruption.
- Configure and maintain backup, recovery, replication, snapshot, and disaster recovery solutions for virtualized workloads.
- Ensure compliance with organizational security standards, audit requirements, and infrastructure governance policies.
- Monitor infrastructure performance, analyze trends, identify risks, and implement proactive improvements to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
- Perform root cause analysis for critical incidents, develop preventive measures, and drive continuous service improvements.
- Support infrastructure modernization initiatives, including VMware version upgrades, capacity optimization, workload migrations, and cloud integration projects.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and knowledge base articles.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Storage, Backup, Network, Security, Server, and Application teams to resolve complex infrastructure issues.
Roles & Responsibilities
- VMware administration responsible for the design, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and operational support of enterprise VMware environments.
- Monitor platform health, utilization, and performance trends; implement proactive improvements to optimize availability and efficiency.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Network, Storage, Backup, Security, and Application teams to deliver stable and resilient services.
- Participate in on-call support, planned maintenance activities, major incident resolution, and disaster recovery testing exercises.
About Company
Q1 consists of experienced and recognized experts providing the capability to respond to market demand in order to provide professional services for our clients including Enterprise software implementations, application integration and technical / functional support.
Q1 has steadily grown into a Quality IT services and solutions organization with the average experience of our team being over 10 years. We have continuously met or exceeded client expectations by delivering professional services and project implementations on time and under budget to help clients truly recognize return on investment.
