Careers

• Collaborate with partners to understand their unique needs and recommend the most suitable technology solution.

• Lead on-site deployment of digital classrooms within correctional facilities, ensuring all infrastructure is correctly installed and configured.

• Design, create, and maintain a customized Debian-based Linux distribution, including kernel, system configuration, and package management.

• Maintain and update a custom Linux image tailored for educational environments in carceral settings.

• Ensure stability, reliability, and security throughout the distribution's lifecycle, including implementing security hardening practices.

• Configure, manage, and troubleshoot network solutions, including both on-premise and secure environments.

• Set up and manage a GitHub repository for the Linux distribution, including ticketing systems for bug tracking and feature requests.

• Ensure that deployed systems adhere to high standards of network security, especially given the sensitive nature of correctional environments.

• Develop and implement testing strategies to ensure the stability and reliability of the Linux distribution.

• Provide training and support to facility staff and program participants to ensure successful adoption of the technology.

• Continuously work to improve and streamline deployment processes, incorporating feedback from justice-impacted individuals and facility staff.

• Create and maintain clear documentation, including installation guides, FAQs, and technical manuals.

• Field Deployment Experience: Willingness to travel to correctional facilities for on-site deployment and support, with a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

• Network Engineering: Strong understanding of enterprise-level network infrastructure and configurations.

• Network Security Engineering: Experience implementing security best practices, firewalls, VPNs, and other network protection mechanisms.

• Linux Administration: Proficient in managing and customizing Linux distributions, preferably with experience maintaining custom images, kernel customization, and package management.

• Windows Administration: Capable of managing Windows environments for digital classroom and server solutions.

• Enterprise Network Design and Administration: Demonstrated ability to design and implement secure, scalable networks.

• GitHub Administration and Project Management: Experience setting up GitHub repositories, ticketing systems, and managing community contributions.

• Partner Engagement: Excellent communication skills, able to translate technical concepts into accessible language for non-technical stakeholders.

• Preferred Qualification: Experience in the correctional or education technology space or familiarity with digital learning environments in secure settings.

• Preferred Qualification: Certifications such as CCNA, RHCE, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or similar.

• Preferred Qualification: Experience with kernel-level development, custom driver integration, and secure configurations (e.g., SELinux/AppArmor).

• Preferred Qualification: Experience working with mixed technology environments (Linux and Windows).

• Preferred Qualification: Experience contributing to or managing open-source projects.

About Us:

Unlocked Labs is a non-profit organization that partners with correctional educators and state corrections departments to design technology infrastructure to better deploy programs and track outcomes, in order to understand efficacy and inform best practices in the justice system.

Our team, which includes justice-impacted software developers, technology industry experts, and education and corrections professionals, works to:

• Build the open-source, public infrastructure is needed to support correctional program outcomes.
• Train, employ, and empower justice-impacted individuals to obtain upwardly-mobile careers upon release.
• Serve as thought-leaders in the correctional education and workforce development space to promote human-centered outcomes and enable smart decarceration.

What we offer:

Unlocked Labs' theory of change is that, by empowering individuals to take charge of their own futures, we can both unlock their upward mobility and create a fairer justice system. This applies to our employees, too: it's important to us that our team members can pursue the skills and projects they want to build their long-term future. Not only are we a mission-aligned organization, but individual growth and satisfaction is paramount to our organization's success. Have an idea that you want to roll out? Want to change up one of our processes or implement new software? Looking to learn a new skill and apply it? Come up with a plan and pitch it; we'll give feedback around implementing it.

We also provide a wide range of benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Group Health Insurance
• Group Dental and Vision Insurance
• Team outings to local businesses of St. Louis
• Free drinks and snacks at our coworking space
• ~25 paid days off, not including holidays: 15 days of PTO, to be used at your discretion; a team-wide “Wellness Week,” where the entire team is off; and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.