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IT Intern - Summer 2025

AAA Life Insurance
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We have a great opportunity in our Information Technology (IT) department for an Intern.  Our IT Internship will provide hands on work experience in an innovative, fast-paced technical environment.  As an intern in IT, you will gain on-the-job business and technical skills utilizing the latest IT technology and practices.  

During this program, the IT Intern may be assigned to various positions/rotations within the IT department or just one. During their internship period, exact rotations will be determined based on individual skill and department needs. Rotations may occur in the following areas:  Application Development, Project Delivery, IT Operations, Network Services and Information Security.

Rotation 1 - Position Responsibilities:

The Project Delivery rotation will provide the IT Intern the opportunity to assist one or more project managers with managing the details of IT projects to include the day-to-day business and internal team organization and communications, assisting with producing project deliverables.  The Project Coordinator supports senior Project Management team resources on projects.

Goals

  • Learn the Agile methodology
  • Become familiar with project lifecycle activities such as initiation, kickoff and ceremonies such as Standup, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives and Story Mapping
  • Learn to elicit, analyze, translate, and document business requirements into functional and non-functional requirements.

Project Examples

  • Business process modeling
  • Handle a variety of project planning and coordination and information system analysis tasks
  • Allocating work

Rotation 2 - Position Responsibilities:

The Quality Assurance rotation would provide the opportunity to learn basic testing, test planning, and automated testing skills. The IT Intern would initially be paired with a senior QA team member to help them through the learning curve of AAA Life. Within 2 – 3 weeks, they will be placed on a project for the duration of this rotation.

Goals

  • Introduce the IT Intern to testing and Quality Assurance
  • An opportunity for exploring a Quality Assurance career
  • Complete a QA roadmap project or increase manpower on an IT project

 

Project Examples

  • Automate the regression suite for a AAA Life application or webservice
  • Increase the automated testing suite functionality
  • Undertake a process improvement task and take to adoption
  • Provide assistance on an IT project

 

Rotation 3 - Position Responsibilities:

The Application Development rotation would be offer the opportunity to learn several web technologies including Java, Spring MVC, Spring-Rest, Spring Soap, Spring Data, Test Driven development, pair programming, and agile methodology. The IT Intern would be part of a web project team and would be paired with several members of the team to deliver production ready code in a live project.

Goals

  • Introduce the IT Intern to Java programming and other web technologies.
  • An opportunity for exploring a Software development career

 

Project Examples

  • Create a Web Service using Spring framework
  • Work on Web team’s technical backlog
  • Undertake a process improvement task and take to adoption
  • Provide additional manpower on a Governance-approved IT project

 

Rotation 4 - Position Responsibilities:

The Network Operations rotation would provide the opportunity to learn basic troubleshooting, installation automation, and system administration. The IT Intern would pair with other employees in this role reviewing current documentation and taking on multiple roles and responsibilities.  This role would communicate frequently with all parts of the organization honing their communication skills.

Goals

  • Be able to handle all functions of Level 1 Support
  • Be a backup system administrator for a select number of systems
  • Create and deploy automation packages

 

Project Examples

  • Disposition and manage incidents and requests using Service Now
  • Create new users or modify existing accounts
  • Update an application on all user workstations using KACE
  • Build new machines and wipe clean old machines

 

Rotation 5 - Position Responsibilities:

Work with members of the Information Security team to improve, monitor and manage difference aspects of the AAA Life security program. This role would utilize verbal and written skills to update and create documentations for policies and procedures. It would also require the use of a number of different systems in the environment.

Goals

  • Be able administer one or more systems
  • Fulfill user access requests
  • Triage and close security incidents
  • Documentation

 

Project Examples

  • Follow IT practices for creating and tracking tasks including reporting on progress
  • Attend team meetings and provide updates on project progress and any road blocks
  • Assessment of DLP tool setting options
  • Define roles and user access
  • Documentation of technical settings, both those proposed to be implemented and those available