We have had some success baking this kind of work into our Small Batch team’s duties. Since most of that kind of work is engineering, our small batch engineers rotate on and off what we call “Bugster” duty every week or two over a 6 week cycle.
The Bugster triages tickets and knocks out small issues and priority bugs. We’ve found that a 1-2 week rotation is short enough to make it feel like a breather for the developer, but long enough to let them actually accomplish something meaningful.
As such, we try to assign 3 devs to our Small Batch team. This way the project work that team is tackling always has enough people to make reasonable progress.