Junior Middleware Engineer: Enterprise Connectivity

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 65,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Junior Middleware Engineer to support provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms in a highly regulated federal IT environment. You will monitor components, perform routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents that affect critical integrations.

Working with application owners, database teams, and infrastructure staff, you will contribute to patching, upgrades, and migrations while documenting

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in IT.
• 0–3 years of middleware administration or related roles in enterprise IT.
• Training or practical experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining middleware in multi‑tier architectures.
• Fundamental security understanding and lifecycle management for middleware apps.

Responsibilities

• Install and configure middleware components following build standards and deployment patterns.
• Monitor middleware health, logs, and alerts; triage issues and escalate as needed.
• Apply vendor patches, update configurations, and validate services after changes.
• Assist in migrations and upgrades, moving configurations across environments and validating integrations.
• Configure access controls, certificates, and basic encryption to align with security policies.
• Document backup/recovery steps for middleware configurations and artifacts.
• Create and maintain runbooks, topology diagrams, inventories, and lifecycle plans for middleware components.
• Coordinate with application, database, and network teams to verify end‑to‑end connectivity after deployments.

Skills

Middleware administration

Incident management

Patch management

Security compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Apache

Nginx

IIS

Tomcat

WebLogic

WebSphere

JBoss

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Junior Middleware Engineer to support provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms in a highly regulated federal IT environment. You will monitor components, perform routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents that affect critical integrations.

Working with application owners, database teams, and infrastructure staff, you will contribute to patching, upgrades, and migrations while documenting