AI & Automation Operations Manager
Brighter Signals
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Job summary
Johnson & Johnson is seeking an AI & Automation Operations Manager to lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of AI-driven workflows across IT Operations and ITSM, leveraging AIOps, Observability tools, ServiceNow and Generative AI to improve service reliability, reduce operational risk, and accelerate incident resolution.
The role also provides operational support within the Digital Command Center (DCC), supporting major incident management, executive communications, and
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in monitoring, event management, AIOps, observability, production engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or IT operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on Observability agentic workflows and Service Now Agent Orchestrator deployments for Operations Center environments.
- Proven experience implementing operational automation, orchestration, or AI-driven solutions.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications and business-critical services.
- Experience leading or supporting major incident management activities.
Responsibilities
- AI Incident Management: Design and implement AI-powered workflows for incident detection, triage, categorization, prioritization, and routing.
- AI Incident Management: Develop AI-assisted root cause analysis, incident enrichment, and predictive incident management capabilities.
- AI Incident Management: Create intelligent remediation runbooks and automated response workflows.
- AI Incident Management: Drive reduction of alert noise through event correlation and service intelligence.
- AI-Driven Problem & Change Management: Build workflows that identify recurring issues and proactively generate problem investigations.
- AI-Driven Problem & Change Management: Implement AI-enabled trend analysis, risk scoring, and change impact assessments.
- AI-Driven Problem & Change Management: Support automated generation of knowledge articles, PIR summaries, and operational insights.
- AI-Augmented Autonomous Operations: Develop self-healing and closed-loop remediation capabilities.
- AI-Augmented Autonomous Operations: Expand automation across observability tools and ITSM processes.
- AI-Augmented Autonomous Operations: Establish governance and operational controls for AI-enabled decision-making and autonomous actions.
- AI-Augmented Autonomous Operations: Create dashboards and metrics to demonstrate operational efficiency, reliability improvements, and business value realization.
- Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations: Serve as Incident Commander or Major Incident Manager during high-severity incidents.
- Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations: Lead cross-functional incident bridges and coordination efforts.
- Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations: Develop and deliver executive communications and stakeholder updates.
- Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations: Support Incident, Problem, Change, and Knowledge Management governance activities.
- Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations: Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational maturity and resiliency.
Skills
AIOps
Observability
Incident management
SRE
IT operations
Monitoring
Tools
Splunk
Now Assist
ServiceNow Agent Orchestrator
ServiceNow
Python
PowerShell
Bash
REST APIs
Job description
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
Job Function
Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Sub Function
Technology Operations Support
Job Category
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Singapore, Singapore
Job Description
AI & Automation Operations Manager
Position Summary
The AI & Automation Operations Manager will lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of AI-driven workflows, intelligent automation, and observability capabilities across IT Operations and IT Service Management (ITSM). This role is responsible for advancing the organization's journey toward AI-augmented and autonomous operations by leveraging AIOps, Observability tools, Service Now and Generative AI technologies to improve service reliability, reduce operational risk, and accelerate incident resolution.
The role will also provide operational support within the Digital Command Center (DCC), supporting major incident management, executive communications, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
AI Incident Management
Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations
Required Qualifications & Skills
Preferred Skills:
Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Empowering People, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Industry Analysis, Operational Excellence, Organizing, Product Knowledge, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Program Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Resource Planning, Service Request Management, Software Development Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Support, Technical Writing
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$102,000.00 - $177,100.00
Additional Description For Pay Transparency
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Benefits
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.
Job Function
Technology Product & Platform Management
Job Sub Function
Technology Operations Support
Job Category
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Singapore, Singapore
Job Description
AI & Automation Operations Manager
Position Summary
The AI & Automation Operations Manager will lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of AI-driven workflows, intelligent automation, and observability capabilities across IT Operations and IT Service Management (ITSM). This role is responsible for advancing the organization's journey toward AI-augmented and autonomous operations by leveraging AIOps, Observability tools, Service Now and Generative AI technologies to improve service reliability, reduce operational risk, and accelerate incident resolution.
The role will also provide operational support within the Digital Command Center (DCC), supporting major incident management, executive communications, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities
AI Incident Management
- Design and implement AI-powered workflows for incident detection, triage, categorization, prioritization, and routing.
- Develop AI-assisted root cause analysis, incident enrichment, and predictive incident management capabilities.
- Create intelligent remediation runbooks and automated response workflows.
- Drive reduction of alert noise through event correlation and service intelligence.
- Build workflows that identify recurring issues and proactively generate problem investigations.
- Implement AI-enabled trend analysis, risk scoring, and change impact assessments.
- Support automated generation of knowledge articles, PIR summaries, and operational insights.
- Develop self-healing and closed-loop remediation capabilities.
- Expand automation across observability tools and ITSM processes.
- Establish governance and operational controls for AI-enabled decision-making and autonomous actions.
- Create dashboards and metrics to demonstrate operational efficiency, reliability improvements, and business value realization.
Digital Command Center (DCC) Operations
- Serve as Incident Commander or Major Incident Manager during high-severity incidents.
- Lead cross-functional incident bridges and coordination efforts.
- Develop and deliver executive communications and stakeholder updates.
- Support Incident, Problem, Change, and Knowledge Management governance activities.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational maturity and resiliency.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- 5+ years of experience in monitoring, event management, AIOps, observability, production engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or IT operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on Observability agentic workflows and Service Now Agent Orchestrator deployments for Operations Center environments.
- Proven experience implementing operational automation, orchestration, or AI-driven solutions.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications and business-critical services.
- Experience leading or supporting major incident management activities.
- Strong Splunk, Now Assist development and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with data onboarding, event normalization, MCP service modeling, KPI creation, dashboard development, and analytics.
- Knowledge of Generative AI, AI Agents, Copilot technologies, and AI-assisted workflow design.
- Experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, or similar automation technologies.
- Experience integrating observability, monitoring, cloud, and ITSM platforms.
- Strong understanding of Incident, Problem, Change, and Knowledge Management processes.
- Experience with ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM platforms.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to lead under pressure during critical incidents and service disruptions.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement mindset.
- Experience working effectively within global, cross-functional delivery teams.
- ITIL certification.
- Splunk Power User, Admin, Architect, or ITSI certifications.
- ServiceNow certifications.
- AI, Machine Learning, Data Analytics, or Automation certifications.
- Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Experience implementing autonomous operations or self-healing platforms.
Preferred Skills:
Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Empowering People, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Industry Analysis, Operational Excellence, Organizing, Product Knowledge, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Program Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Resource Planning, Service Request Management, Software Development Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Support, Technical Writing
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$102,000.00 - $177,100.00
Additional Description For Pay Transparency
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Benefits
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
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