Middleware Engineer: Secure Enterprise Integrations

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 78,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Database/Middleware Engineer to configure and administer enterprise middleware platforms for mission-critical federal systems. You will own day-to-day operations, monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and performance tuning across multi-tier environments.

The role involves patching, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning activities, ensuring changes align with security, change management, and lifecycle standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 4-7 years of hands-on middleware engineering or administration experience supporting production or mission-critical environments.
• Strong proficiency with middleware technologies and tools, including monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, migrating, and upgrading middleware environments in multi-tier architectures.
• Demonstrated understanding of security standards, best practices, and lifecycle management for middleware applications, including configuration of secure protocols and access controls.
• Experience documenting and maintaining comprehensive operational procedures, connectivity diagrams, and lifecycle support plans for middleware platforms.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain clearance as required by the client.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to travel less than 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain middleware platforms, tailoring settings for reliability, scalability, and observability across environments.
• Monitor middleware performance and availability, diagnose complex integration issues, and implement tuning changes to improve throughput and stability.
• Plan and execute middleware patching, upgrades, and environment migrations with maintenance windows, rollback strategies, and post-change validation.
• Design and enforce middleware security configurations, including authentication, TLS, and secure baselines that align with regulatory requirements.
• Implement and maintain backup and recovery approaches for middleware configurations, scripts, and artifacts, and participate in continuity of operations and disaster recovery exercises.
• Document runbooks, architecture diagrams, and lifecycle roadmaps to support audits and knowledge transfer.
• Evaluate new middleware products, perform PoCs, and provide recommendations on standards and best practices for enterprise adoption.
• Coordinate with application teams to support deployments and optimize connection pooling and resource configuration.

Skills

Middleware engineering

Security compliance

Incident troubleshooting

Monitoring & tuning

Patch management

System administration

Education

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

Tools

WebLogic

WebSphere

Tomcat

JBoss

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Database/Middleware Engineer to configure and administer enterprise middleware platforms for mission-critical federal systems. You will own day-to-day operations, monitoring, incident troubleshooting, and performance tuning across multi-tier environments.

The role involves patching, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning activities, ensuring changes align with security, change management, and lifecycle standards.