Wordpress Developer

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

Location: Downey, CA, 90242 (Hybrid)

Position: W2 only

Position 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:

• 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.

Experience Required:

• 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 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.