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Brandon McCraw
Platform, Cloud & Security Engineering Leader
I lead engineering teams — and I still build the infrastructure myself when it counts. 18 years in tech, 11 of them cloud-native, with hands-on platform and cloud security experience behind every call I make as a leader.
SYSTEM STATUS
- UPTIME
- 18yrs
- CLOUD-NATIVE
- 11yrs
- CERT
- AWS SA Pro
- CERT
- GASAE
01 · About
I love connecting businesses with the technologies that make them better — whether that's a website built out of a living room or a security platform built for an enterprise. I dig in until I'm the expert in the room.
My background is platform engineering: Terraform at scale, CI/CD for infrastructure, cloud architecture across AWS, Azure, and GCP. A former leader trusted me to take that discipline into security, and I've spent the last year running product security operations — CNAPP, SOAR, and a SOC — for a multinational software company. I still think like an infrastructure engineer; I just point it at risk now.
02 · Experience
Service status
Every role, read the way I'd read a fleet of services — what's running, for how long, and what it does.
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OPERATIONAL
Director, Product Security Operations @ Dematic
Built the Security Platform Services org from the ground up — CNAPP, SOAR, and a new SOC — and embedded security into CI/CD alongside distributed DevOps and data platform teams.
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COMPLETE
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer @ Southwest Airlines
Migrated a legacy, custom-built platform onto standardized Terraform, and led how the platform integrated with cybersecurity policy.
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ONGOING
Senior DevOps Engineer @ Provisions Group
Consulting across AWS, Azure, and GCP, mostly on Kubernetes — cloud security reviews, CI/CD builds in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, and mentoring junior engineers.
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COMPLETE
Senior Systems Engineer → Systems Engineer @ Ramsey Solutions
Led the AWS account migration from 3 accounts to a modern 80+-account Organization, consolidated 20+ sites without losing SEO, and owned the ForgeRock identity rollout end to end.
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COMPLETE
Computer Systems Engineer @ USAA
Ran the Red Hat/JBoss/Tomcat estate for 50+ applications, then WebSphere administration, then DB2/IMS and MySQL — the long way into infrastructure, one layer of the stack at a time.
03 · Stack
What I reach for
CLOUD
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
IaC & AUTOMATION
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- Kubernetes
CI/CD
- GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
- GitLab CI
SECURITY PLATFORMS
- CNAPP
- SOAR
- SIEM
- AWS Security Hub
- AWS Config
IDENTITY & SYSTEMS
- ForgeRock
- Red Hat Linux
- WebSphere
- DB2 / MySQL
04 · Certifications
05 · Education
- MBA, Business Administration — West Texas A&M University
- B.S., Management Information Systems — Angelo State University
06 · Contact
Let's talk infrastructure
Open to remote roles, and to hybrid near Middle Tennessee. Best fits are cloud security or platform engineering, ideally on a focused team.