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Website UI/UX Designer/Developer/WordPress

Location: Downey, CA, 90242- Hybrid

Duration: 12+ months Contract

Note: Hybrid work schedule 3 days on site 2 days remote

Job Description

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.

Skills Required

• 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
• Documentum
• Customer service skills
• Ability to collaborate with different levels 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
• Practice DevOps and agile methodologies

Experience Required

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

Education Required

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.