Technical Operations Engineer

Ticket Ownership: Be primary responder for the queue; acknowledge, triage, and resolve tickets across email/portal/phone/chat.

Customer Communication: Keep customers informed with clear, friendly updates and realistic ETAs; jump on Zoom/phone when needed.

Troubleshooting: Reproduce issues, analyze logs, collect diagnostics, and deliver workarounds or fixes.

Escalations: Identify P1/P2 incidents, follow runbooks, and hand off cleanly to Tier 3/Engineering with crisp context.

Documentation: Create/update knowledge base articles, macros, and runbooks; improve templates and tagging.

Quality & Hygiene: Maintain SLAs/SLOs, categorize tickets accurately, and ensure thorough notes.

Tooling & Automation: Suggest and implement improvements (views, rules, alerts, workflows).

Post-Incident Follow-up: Draft RCAs for customer-facing incidents in partnership with engineering/ops.

Feedback Loop: Aggregate recurring issues into product/bug reports with impact and repro steps.

Requirements

2-4 years in a service desk / technical support role (SaaS, IT, or developer-facing product).

Strong troubleshooting skills and structured thinking; comfortable with logs, APIs, and basic networking.

Excellent written & verbal communication; empathetic with a service mindset.

Experience with a modern ticketing system (e.g., Zendesk, Jira Service Management, Freshdesk).

Familiarity with incident management (ITIL-lite is fine) and SLA tracking.

Comfortable working U.S. business hours with light on-call rotation.

Basic scripting (e.g., Bash, Python) for log parsing or simple automations.

Experience supporting computer vision/ML, edge devices, or REST APIs.

Exposure to observability tools (Datadog, Grafana), and log tools (ELK).

Certifications: ITIL Foundation, HDI, CompTIA A+/Network+.

Benefits

Chooch offers extensive benefits including health, dental, vision insurance, 401K with 3% match, extensive PTO, and life insurance policies included.