Junior Middleware Engineer - Enterprise Integrations

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

Job summary

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, seeks a Junior Middleware Engineer to assist in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms essential for enterprise integrations.

You will monitor components, support routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents in a highly regulated federal IT environment, with opportunities to learn from senior engineers and contribute to security and documentation standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 0–3 years of experience in middleware administration, systems administration, or closely related roles supporting enterprise IT infrastructure.
• Training or practical experience in middleware administration, including provisioning, configuring, optimizing, and maintaining middleware software solutions in multi-tier architectures.
• Fundamental understanding of security standards, best practices, and lifecycle management for middleware applications and integration platforms.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain clearance as required by the client.
• U.S. citizenship as required for this federal IT environment position.
• Less than 10% travel required.

Responsibilities

• Assist with installing and configuring middleware components such as application servers, web servers, and messaging platforms, following established build standards and deployment patterns to support enterprise integration needs.
• Monitor middleware health, logs, and alerts, performing initial triage of integration and connectivity issues and escalating complex problems to senior middleware engineers in accordance with incident management protocols.
• Support routine maintenance tasks including applying vendor patches, updating configuration files, and validating services after changes in accordance with change management processes and security baselines.
• Help execute migration and upgrade activities for middleware environments, including moving configurations between development, test, and production and validating key integration points after deployments.
• Apply foundational understanding of security standards by configuring access controls, certificates, and basic encryption settings to align middleware services with enterprise security policies and compliance requirements.
• Assist in performing and documenting backup and recovery steps for middleware configurations and related artifacts to support continuity of operations objectives and disaster recovery planning.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of runbooks, topology diagrams, inventory records, and lifecycle plans for middleware components in a highly regulated government environment.
• Coordinate with application, database, and network teams to validate end‑to‑end connectivity, URL routing, and service availability after deployments or infrastructure changes.

Skills

Middleware admin

Security clearance

US citizenship

Federal IT

Education

BA/BS in CS or related

Job description

ASM Research, an Accenture Federal Services company, seeks a Junior Middleware Engineer to assist in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms essential for enterprise integrations.

You will monitor components, support routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents in a highly regulated federal IT environment, with opportunities to learn from senior engineers and contribute to security and documentation standards.