Job Description
Job Description
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.
Job Tags
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