Senior User Experience Designer (Downey)

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 bachelors 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.