IT Engineer intern

2026 IT Engineer paid intern (May and August hires)

Riverton, UT, United States (Hybrid)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is looking for IT Engineer interns to help in our IT department and participate in maintaining and updating IT systems (hardware and software) utilized by the Church.

If you are an upbeat and dedicated individual who loves to learn new technologies, and you're looking for a technical internship, keep reading!

About:

This internship position represents an exciting opportunity to work for one of the largest information technology centers in the Wasatch front. This individual works with divine guidance to provide or support technology that furthers the mission of the Church and reflects the eternal impact of the gospel.

A Day in the Life:

You will develop hands-on experience with real-world systems and tools. You'll have the opportunity to apply your skills in meaningful, real-world scenarios. This involves system administrative privileges in support of network devices, storage, servers (both physical and virtual), monitoring systems (i.e., Splunk, Dynatrace, Nagios, Solar Winds, Service Now, Meraki) application services and database services (Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server). Tasks to include:

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 Service Now

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.

We are committed to the well-being of our employees and supporting them in becoming their best self. Our focus on physical and mental health, financial security, and personal and professional development helps employees create more energy, purpose, and balance in life.

This is a 40 hour per week internship that is expected to last approximately 4 months. Normal office hours are between 8:00am-5:00pm, Monday through Friday. Your manager may adjust your shift to meet the needs of the team.

This office is located in Riverton, Utah. Hybrid and remote options are available.

Interns do get the option of enrolling in a high deductible medical plan.

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

Familiarity with the following tools/technologies:

Required – Microsoft Windows Servers, Linux, Microsoft Office Suite

Suggested – Oracle APEX, Scripting, HTML editing

Strong technical and creative writing skills

Understanding of server and networks

Familiarity and experience with AI and automation encouraged

Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this,…