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    Incident Operations Specialist

    Zapier
    NAMER
    Remote
    Mid Level
    Full Time
    about 1 month ago
    💰$ 119,000 - $ 178,500
    incident managementAI-powered workflowsremotetechnical operationsautomationincident response

    Requirements

    • Experience in incident response, technical operations, or a reliability-adjacent role
    • Hands-on familiarity with incident tooling such as incident.io, PagerDuty, and Slack-based workflow automation
    • Comfortable building with SQL and reporting tools like Databricks, Looker, Grafana
    • Able to diagnose operational issues using logs, system context, and integration debugging
    • Can build lightweight automations, configure APIs, and prototype AI workflows without needing an engineer
    • Demonstrable daily use of AI for drafting, summarizing, building workflows, and triaging
    • Experience building repeatable AI-powered workflows
    • Applies verification and judgment to AI outputs especially in high-pressure incident contexts
    • Can articulate how AI usage has improved speed, quality, or operational capacity
    • Ability to independently drive problems to resolution with strong attention to detail in configuration, data quality, and documentation
    • Works visibly with proactive updates and no need to be chased
    • Proven track record of respectfully disagreeing and committing to decisions
    • Clear written communication across engineering, support, and operations audiences
    • Proactive in surfacing risks, blockers, and improvement opportunities
    • Comfortable pushing back on off-program requests and escalating trade-offs
    • Able to communicate highly technical incident information to non-technical audiences clearly and without jargon

    What You'll Do

    • Own incident tooling operations including maintaining reliability and configuration of incident.io, PagerDuty, Slack workflows, on-call rotations, and escalation paths
    • Build and maintain AI-powered workflows such as incident thread summarization, postmortem draft generation, follow-up triage, severity classification, and data hygiene workflows
    • Build and sustain the Incident Commander community of practice, run regular touchpoints, share learnings, and coach responders
    • Operate data and reporting systems including building, maintaining, and troubleshooting dashboards and reports using Databricks, Grafana, Looker
    • Maintain documentation and enablement assets like playbooks, templates, and incident guides
    • Drive continuous improvement by participating in incidents and postmortem reviews, identifying patterns, and implementing improvements
    • Partner across the organization coordinating with Engineering, Support, GTM, Legal, and Finance teams
    • Support the incident program at scale by onboarding and enabling new stakeholder groups and building infrastructure for self-sufficient operation

    About Zapier

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