Full Stack WordPress Developer Services

The Vendor is required to provide for a part-time full stack WordPress developer to provide an assessment of our sites, give feedback for improvements, and collaborate with our hosting vendor pantheon.
- The developer will support various aspects of the schools website environment including design, availability, reliability, performance, monitoring, and security of websites as directed by the schools web services team.
- Responsibilities:
•    Experience developing and maintaining WordPress multisite 
•    Recommend solutions and collaborate with schools web services team to maintain sites and solve technical issues 
•    Support DevOps processes around testing, deployment and release management, and uptime issues; setup and tuning of monitoring systems including thousand eyes, new relic, and solar winds. 
•    Configure and maintain WordPress CMS for security and performance 
•    Maintain version control for WordPress core, themes, 3rd party plugins for performance and security 
•    Reporting and measurement: status reporting, performance measurement, and retrospectives 
•    Create, maintain, and backup databases 
•    Participate in planning and execution of tasks related to the evaluation of new website-based initiatives including new feature development or troubleshooting existing features (upgraded versions, third-party solutions, integration with additional enterprise systems) 
•    Ensuring cross-platform compatibility, responsive design, and performance analysis and optimization 
•    Communicating effectiveness of emerging technologies to decision makers 
•    Ensuring security, maintenance, and scalability when developing solutions 
•    Knowledge of WordPress security and WP plugin security. 
•    Support patching WP/WP plugins on a regular cadence (or as needed based on risks presented by disclosed vulnerabilities) 
•    Ensuring accessibility WCAG 2.1aa.