2026 IT Engineer Technical Intern (Jan and May 2027 hires)

Summary

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is seeking IT Engineer interns to support its IT department. The role provides hands-on experience maintaining and updating hardware, software, network devices, servers, storage, monitoring systems, application services, and databases, while assisting with cloud migrations and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Provisioning and deployment of network and server hardware worldwide, including Meraki networking gear
• Assisting with migrations from on premise data centers to cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Monitor system activity for outages or system overload
• Responding to incidents and fulfilling common requests from other IT customers
• Replace/upgrade existing hardware within the data center
• Manage/update the Configuration Management Database
• Implement system monitoring / reporting technology using ServiceNow
• Work with state-of-the-art tools to help develop enterprise solutions
• Be mentored by highly experienced IT professionals
• We hasten the Lord's work in an important way
• Be a member of a creative, spiritual, and highly motivated team and culture
• You will develop hands-on experience with real-world systems and tools

Skills

• You should be currently enrolled or within one year of your graduation date from an accredited college or university
• Internship is for current temple worthy members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Experience with or knowledge of Network switches, routers, VLAN and firewalls
• Experience with or knowledge of IP addresses, network mask, DNS (Domain Name System) entries and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) knowledge
• Experience with or knowledge of OSI models
• Experience with or knowledge of system administration
• Experience with Cloud technologies and services, such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Experience with or knowledge of data centers
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with and providing information to management levels will be needed
• Project management experience is desired
• Familiarity with the following tools/technologies:
• Required - Microsoft Windows Servers, Linux, Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong technical and creative writing skills
• Understanding of server and networks
• Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment
• Suggested - Oracle APEX, Scripting, HTML editing
• Familiarity and experience with AI and automation encouraged

Qualifications

Must Haves

• You should be currently enrolled or within one year of your graduation date from an accredited college or university
• Internship is for current temple worthy members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Experience with or knowledge of Network switches, routers, VLAN and firewalls
• Experience with or knowledge of IP addresses, network mask, DNS (Domain Name System) entries and DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) knowledge
• Experience with or knowledge of OSI models
• Experience with or knowledge of system administration
• Experience with Cloud technologies and services, such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
• Experience with or knowledge of data centers
• Excellent communication skills for interacting with and providing information to management levels will be needed
• Project management experience is desired
• Familiarity with the following tools/technologies:
• Required - Microsoft Windows Servers, Linux, Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong technical and creative writing skills
• Understanding of server and networks
• Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment

Nice to Haves

• Suggested - Oracle APEX, Scripting, HTML editing
• Familiarity and experience with AI and automation encouraged

Benefits

• Full time interns can enroll in a high deductible medical plan
• Be mentored by highly experienced IT professionals
• Hybrid and remote options are available.