Contract Duration:1 Year

OT Rate: Straight Time (Exempt)

Estimated Regular Hours/Week: 40.00

Hybrid

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.

Company DescriptionAbout us:

The Norland Group has been in operation successfully since 1996. We are a strong believer of people management, professionalism and accountability. We only make promises when we are certain we can fulfill them. Our business focuses on fulfilling the needs of commercial and government customers in administrative services, workforce mobilization, information technology, engineering, project management services.
Our Mission Statement

Our main goal is to provide career advancement opportunities to our associates. We are committed to bringing our customers exceptional support services with the highest quality, integrity, and innovation. We believe that we are the stepping stone for our associates to advance their careers and to live a better life. Everyone should have a chance to live a successful and happy life. We operate our business based on those values and we choose employees who value the same principles.