Website UI/UX Designer/ Developer / WordPress

Role: Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress)

Locations: 9150 E. Imperial Hwy., Downey, CA, 90242 (Hybrid work schedule 3 days on site 2 days remote)

Duration: 12+ Months contract

Role Overview

The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) works under the direction of an IT Manager or user agency personnel. This classification specializes in the WordPress website platform and will work as part of a team to provide customers with WordPress hosting and professional services business. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will work with developers, designers, testers, and project managers interfacing with multi-functional IT support groups and will interface with both internal and external customers from various County departments. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will provide WordPress application development, website onboarding and operational support on WPEngine and AWS Openshift platform;participate in new development, onboarding, and operational support of WordPress websites, PHP and Java applications, hybrid mobile apps, and kiosks;support and maintain multiple websites and be responsible for upgrading and patching WordPress core, themes, and plugins;will use the County's standard tools to improve and automate DevOps workflow operations, including WordPress, MySQL, PHP, Apache, Varn / NGINX varnish, WhiteHat security scan, Git;follow the incident, change and problem management procedures using the Cherwell Service Management System;and participate in team meetings and huddles. The WordPress hosting line of business is with a 24/7 operation and must meet a service level agreement of 99.5% up time. The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will work from a primary County office but will also connect remotely into the County network to support this operation and adhere to the service level agreement up time.

Required Skills

The Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress) will possess knowledge and experience with WordPress website design, development, and implementation;various coding languages, frameworks, operating systems, and platforms including PHP, NodeJS, React, JavaScript, CSS, CLI, BASH scripting, GitHub, Linux, Windows, WP Engine (WPE);Open-Source Content Management System (CMS);technology and methodology of API;WordPress;document search tools such as Elastic or Algolia;and Documentum. They will possess knowledge and experience in customer service;ability to collaborate with different level of team members;strong organization and time management;oral and written communication skills in English;ability to provide feedback and receive critique from design team members and customers;and practice DevOps and agile methodologies.

Required Experience

This classification requires a minimum of five (5) years performing all of the building and customizing of WordPress websites, themes and plugins;

Building natively or using tools such as ACF ( Advanced custom fields) to facilitate the creation of blocks, page options and or theme customization;

Building responsive websites for desktop and mobile devices;

Client side scripting using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery;

A minimum of two (2) years working with ADA and accessibility tooling / remediation;

Using REST or GRAPHQL API;Hardening WordPress websites and remediating security vulnerabilities;

Perform performance tuning PHP, Apache and MySQL and scripting and running load testing tool;

Programming in PHP and JavaScript;and

A minimum of three (3) years installing, configuring and using Open-Source development tools, IDEs, and GIT source control.

Education

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Computer Science field. Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.