Middleware Engineer – Secure, Mission-Critical Systems

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

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Database/Middleware Engineer (Mid) to configure and operate enterprise middleware connecting distributed apps and databases in a highly regulated government environment.

You will own day-to-day middleware operations, monitor performance, troubleshoot incidents, and tune systems to ensure secure, reliable integrations for mission-critical services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 4–7 years of middleware engineering or administration experience in production or mission-critical environments.
• Proficient with middleware technologies including monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, migrating, and upgrading.
• Understanding of security standards, lifecycle management, and secure configuration for middleware apps.
• Experience documenting operational procedures, diagrams, and lifecycle support plans.
• Active SECRET security clearance or ability to obtain and maintain clearance.
• U.S. citizenship and willingness to travel <10%.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain middleware platforms for reliability, scalability, and observability.
• Monitor performance and availability; diagnose issues and tune for throughput.
• Plan patches, upgrades, migrations with maintenance windows and rollback validation.
• Design and enforce secure middleware configurations and TLS baselines.
• Implement backup/recovery for middleware configurations and scripts; support DR exercises.
• Document runbooks, diagrams, inventories, and roadmaps for audit and transfer.
• Evaluate new middleware products and provide adoption recommendations.
• Coordinate with application teams to support deployments and optimize connections.

Skills

Middleware engineering

Security clearance

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Lifecycle management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

WebLogic

WebSphere

JBoss

Tomcat

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company, seeks a Database/Middleware Engineer (Mid) to configure and operate enterprise middleware connecting distributed apps and databases in a highly regulated government environment.

You will own day-to-day middleware operations, monitor performance, troubleshoot incidents, and tune systems to ensure secure, reliable integrations for mission-critical services.