Tech Providers, is hiring: Website UI/UX Designer/ Developer / WordPress in Down

Job Title: Website UI/UX Designer/Developer (WordPress)

Location: Downey, CA

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

Duration: 12+ month contract with likelihood for extension

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.

Responsibilities:

• Work with developers, designers, testers, and project managers interfacing with multi-functional IT support groups.
• Interface with both internal and external customers from various departments.
• 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.
• Use the 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.
• Participate in team meetings and huddles.
• Ensure the WordPress hosting line of business, which operates 24/7, meets a service level agreement of 99.5% uptime.
• Work from a primary office but also connect remotely into the network to support operations and adhere to the service level agreement uptime.

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, 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 of DevOps and agile methodologies.

Experience Required:

• Five (5) years performing all of the building and customizing of WordPress websites, themes, and plugins.
• Experience building natively or using tools such as ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) to facilitate the creation of blocks, page options, and/or theme customization.
• Experience building responsive websites for desktop and mobile devices.
• Client-side scripting using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, and jQuery.
• Two (2) years working with ADA and accessibility tooling/remediation.
• Using REST or GRAPHQL API.
• Hardening WordPress websites and remediating security vulnerabilities.
• Performing performance tuning on PHP, Apache, and MySQL and scripting and running load testing tools.
• Programming in PHP and JavaScript.
• Three (3) years installing, configuring, and using Open-Source development tools, IDEs, and GIT source control.

Education Required:

• 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.