Junior Middleware Engineer - Federal IT, SECRET Clearance

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Trenton (NJ); 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 within a highly regulated federal IT environment.

You will monitor middleware components, perform routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents affecting mission-critical integrations under the guidance of senior engineers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 0–3 years of middleware administration or related IT infrastructure experience.
• Training or practical experience in provisioning, configuring, and maintaining middleware solutions.
• Fundamental understanding of security standards and lifecycle management for middleware apps.

Responsibilities

• Assist with installing and configuring middleware components such as application servers, web servers, and messaging platforms.
• Monitor middleware health, logs, and alerts; triage incidents and escalate to senior engineers per incident protocols.
• Support routine maintenance: apply patches, update configs, validate services after changes per security baselines.
• Assist in migrations and upgrades across dev/test/prod and validate integration points.
• 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, inventory, and lifecycle plans for middleware components in a regulated environment.
• Coordinate with application, database, and network teams to validate end-to-end connectivity after deployments.

Skills

Middleware administration

Incident management

Scripting basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology or related field

Tools

Apache

Nginx

IIS

Tomcat

WebLogic

WebSphere

JBoss

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Junior Middleware Engineer to assist in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms within a highly regulated federal IT environment.

You will monitor middleware components, perform routine maintenance, and help troubleshoot incidents affecting mission-critical integrations under the guidance of senior engineers.