Senior Middleware Systems Engineer

ASM Research; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 74,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research is seeking an IT professional to support multiple disciplines including application support, database administration, QA/QC, and software engineering. The role focuses on monitoring, backups, automation, and improvements across on‑prem and cloud environments.

The candidate will install and maintain EAP/Tomcat/Apache servers, develop Ansible playbooks, and drive security hardening, performance tuning, and release activities with CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4-6 years of experience in information technology, systems administration or other IT related field.
• Experience with JBoss Enterprise Application Server (EAP), JAVA, and Apache HTTP Server configuration, installation and troubleshooting.
• Ansible playbook development and administration for middleware admin tasks.
• Experience in application deployment, security best practices, and system hardening.
• Experience with data source configuration, and LDAP authentication.
• Proficiency in performance tuning and monitoring using Splunk and AppDynamics.
• CI/CD Tools experience - Pipeline setup and troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure as code tool experience (Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience with Linux command line and bash scripting

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and administer JBoss Enterprise Application Server (EAP), Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server 2.x
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for application deployment, configuration management, patching, and operational automation.
• Deploy applications, enforce secure baseline configurations, and ensure high availability, continuous monitoring, and system hardening.
• Oversee JAVA Application Service installations and upgrades, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and patching.
• Create, configure, and maintain Tomcat servers across all environments, supporting configuration and application deployments.
• Configure and monitor data sources, JDBC Connection Pools, and JMS Messaging.
• Work with development teams to deploy patches and fixes for vulnerabilities on on-prem and cloud servers.
• Participate in monthly maintenance activities and release cycles, including JBoss EAP patching, application updates, and verification of domains and URLs.
• Develop and enhance F5 load balancer health checks for Application server readiness and critical application URLs.
• Monitor and tune performance using tools such as Splunk and AppDynamics to manage JBoss server domains.

Skills

Scripting automation

CI/CD Tools

LDAP authentication

Splunk monitoring

AppDynamics monitoring

Security hardening

Cloud infrastructure

Linux bash

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jboss EAP

Tomcat

Apache HTTP Server

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

ASM Research is seeking an IT professional to support multiple disciplines including application support, database administration, QA/QC, and software engineering. The role focuses on monitoring, backups, automation, and improvements across on‑prem and cloud environments.

The candidate will install and maintain EAP/Tomcat/Apache servers, develop Ansible playbooks, and drive security hardening, performance tuning, and release activities with CI/CD practices.