The posting
The Middleware Engineer, Junior assists in provisioning, configuring, and administering middleware platforms that connect applications and databases in complex enterprise environments. This role supports day-to-day operations by monitoring middleware components, performing routine maintenance, and helping troubleshoot incidents that affect mission-critical integrations. The engineer contributes to patching, upgrades, and migrations of middleware software under the guidance of senior engineers, while documenting configurations, standards, and operating procedures. Working collaboratively with application owners, database teams, and infrastructure staff, this position ensures reliable, secure, and well-governed middleware services in a highly regulated federal IT environment.
Key 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.
Required 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to common enterprise middleware stacks such as Apache, Nginx, IIS, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, or JBoss in production or test environments.
- Familiarity with scripting for basic automation of monitoring or maintenance tasks, such as shell scripting, PowerShell, or Python.
- Entry-level certifications or training related to middleware administration or enterprise application servers.
- Experience working in highly regulated or federal government IT environments with strong change management and documentation practices.
Compensation Ranges
Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.
EEO Requirements
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All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.
Physical Requirements
The physical requirements described in "Knowledge, Skills and Abilities" above are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. (For example, "light office duties' or "lifting up to 50 pounds" or "some travel" required.) Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with qualifying disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the primary functions.
Disclaimer
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
