LAMP Tech Lead

The selected candidate for the role will handle the following for the company:

Works with internal development team or external vendor to implement technical solution as defined with Project Manager / Senior Manager / UX Team- translating technical requirements from customers to other teams and vendor.

Performs Code reviews for security, performance and best practices

Responsible for maintaining performance/load testing/etc standards for internal and externally developed projects

Occasional “Hands on” development

Heavily involved in decisions and evaluation of plugins, libraries and tools. (i.e. making decisions on what technologies to use for project)

Works with Project Managers to negotiate timelines, identify development risks and align internal expectations- determining best practices for software development, looking at security questions for sites- done in a secure way, system availability - is it functioning and responding in reasonable time, are we overloading systems.

Responsible for developing, enacting and enforcing documentation, process and performance standards

Deliverable - architecture diagrams, requirements documentation (technical requirements)

Qualifications

Major Technical Expertise Required:

• Network Architecture (Load balancers, scalability, load testing, redundancy, etc)
• WordPress configuration/support/development
• Caching tools (Memcache, Redis, Varnish, Squid, etc)
• MySQL
• PHP
• JavaScript
• Backend integrations
• Git/GitHub/GitLab

Moderate Technical Experience Required:

• Configuration Mgmt tools (Chef, Puppet, etc)
• Linux command line

Preferred Technical Experience:

• Gulp/Grunt
• Jenkins
• Galera
• SAML Single Sign-On
• AWS

Additional Information

• Extremely comfortable working with non-technical people and other technical people
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Experience managing outside vendors
• Experience in an enterprise environment

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.