Junior Middleware Engineer — Enterprise Integration

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Columbia (SC); 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 assist in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms integral to enterprise integrations in a regulated federal IT setting.

You will monitor middleware health, perform routine maintenance, apply patches, support migrations, and help document configurations and runbooks, collaborating with application, database, and network teams to ensure secure, available services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience.
• 0–3 years in middleware or systems administration supporting enterprise IT.
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining middleware in multi-tier architectures.
• Active SECRET clearance or ability to obtain one.
• U.S. citizenship required for federal IT environment.
• Travel under 10%.

Responsibilities

• Install and configure middleware components (servers, web servers, messaging) per standards.
• Monitor middleware health, logs, and alerts, triage incidents.
• Apply patches, update configurations, validate services after changes.
• Assist migrations and upgrades across dev/test/prod with validation.
• Configure access controls and basic encryption per security baselines.
• Document backup/recovery steps for middleware configurations.
• Create and maintain runbooks, diagrams, inventory, lifecycle plans.
• Coordinate with app, database, network teams to validate connectivity after deployments.

Skills

Middleware administration

Incident management

Security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

Apache

Nginx

IIS

Tomcat

WebLogic

WebSphere

JBoss

PowerShell

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, is seeking a Junior Middleware Engineer to assist in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms integral to enterprise integrations in a regulated federal IT setting.

You will monitor middleware health, perform routine maintenance, apply patches, support migrations, and help document configurations and runbooks, collaborating with application, database, and network teams to ensure secure, available services.