Privileges Required to use Alert Escalations 
To use alert escalations, you need either:
scheduler-administrator role
system, partition or isolation goup-level permissions
object-specific prvileges
Creating Alert Escalations
You need one of the following privilege ranks to be able to create escalations:
Create - allows you to create alert escalations on the level the privilege was granted (system, partition, isolation-group), you have no further privileges through this rank, you automatically get privileges on alert escalations you create.
Edit - allows you to create, view and edit all alert escalations on the level the privilege was granted (system, partition, isolation-group, object)
All - full control over all alert escalations on the level the privilege was granted (system, partition, isolation-group, object)
Editing Escalations
To successfully edit alert escalations, you have to have one the following privileges:
Edit - allows you to create, view and edit all alert escalations on the level the privilege was granted (system, partition, isolation-group, object)
All - full control over all alert escalations on the level the privilege was granted (system, partition, isolation-group, object)
Alert escalations can reference the following objects, you need at least View privileges on these objects when you want to edit an alert escalation that references them:
Application