Brandon McCraw

Director of Engineering

Spring Hill, Tennessee, United States17 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in cloud security and incident response.
Proven leadership in building high-performance teams.
Strong background in DevOps and infrastructure management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing expert with strong DevOps capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityCybersecurity Incident ResponseDevopsCloud ComputingIdentity & Access Management (iam)Infrastructure ManagementHigh Availability (ha)

Other Skills

DockerScaled Agile FrameworkSecurity Operations ManagementInfrastructure as code (IaC)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)TerraformKubernetesLinux System AdministrationPulumiPython (Programming Language)TypeScriptMicrosoft AzureAnsibleAmazon Web Services (AWS)Databases

About

I love connecting businesses with the technologies that make them better. Whether it's a website for a small business out of a living room or implementing an identity solution for an existing enterprise, I thrive on digging in and becoming the expert.

Experience

17 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr

Current Experience

Dematic

Director of Product Security Operations

May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Lead the Security Platform Services strategy, building a distributed team to deliver scalable, automated cloud security capabilities (CNAPP, SOAR), establish a SOC and enhance enterprise-wide observability.
Drive cross-functional collaboration with distributed DevOps and Data Platform teams, utilizing Agile principles to align security platform delivery with product roadmaps and stakeholder needs.
Champion a People-first leadership approach, evolving team structures and capabilities to support a vision of intelligent automation and proactive vulnerability management.
Established a high-trust, people first culture through knowledge sharing and open communication to foster growth and increase retention of high performance individuals.
Architected and deployed advanced security platforms (CNAPP, SIEM, SOAR) and SaaS security solutions. Integrated these tools to drive maximum team productivity, unified observability, and automated incident response.
Partnered with development teams to embed security into CICD pipelines and enhance observability.
Implemented risk-based vulnerability management to ensure rapid patching and continuous compliance.
Track and manage vendor expenses to ensure adherence to existing contracts and budgets throughout the year and during renewal cycles.
Evaluate and implement AI-enhanced capabilities for their use in security operations processes to expedite the remediation of threats and vulnerabilities.

Cybersecurity Incident ResponseCloud Security

Southwest airlines

Senior Cloud Devops Engineer

Oct 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

Support enterprise platform of patterns and pipelines utilizing Terraform, Python, and Gitlab pipelines
Evolve a legacy platform of custom code into an industry standard terraform platform
Mentor associate DevOps engineers to educate and inspire them as they grow in their careers.
Lead platform integration with cybersecurity policies
Work with LACE teams around workload planning and prioritizing team workload using Agile/SAFe methods.

DevOpsCloud Computing

Ramsey solutions

2 roles

Senior System Engineer

Jul 2021 – Oct 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Identity & Access Management (IAM)Infrastructure Management

Systems Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jul 2021 · 6 yrs

Systems Engineering is responsible for all technologies that deliver web content to our customers. We are the AWS experts and are responsible for advising, managing, deploying and configuring our infrastructure. We utilize the software development lifecycle and infrastructure as code principles to build the cloud resources that fuel the 100+ domains we support.

Infrastructure ManagementHigh Availability (HA)

Provisions group

Senior DevOps Engineer

Jul 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 10 mos · Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Assist clients in the design and implementation of various cloud solutions. This encompassed all three major cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Mostly focused on Kubernetes
Utilized DevOps practices to build CICD pipelines in both Azure DevOps and Github Actions
Conduct Cloud Security reviews and recommend improvements to cloud posture and monitoring
Mentor junior DevOps Engineers

Infrastructure ManagementDockerDevOpsCloud Computing

Usaa

3 roles

WebSphere Systems Administrator

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

I am responsible for the IBM WebSphere environment and many applications that run on it. We provide 24/7 support on all critical applications, monitoring, and consultation on new development. In addition to the WebSphere servers, I'm also responsible for working on the IBM WebSphere MQ application.

High Availability (HA)

Computer Systems Engineer

Jul 2008 – Jun 2015 · 6 yrs 11 mos

The IT Ops Automation team supports its own environment of servers independent of the regular USAA infrastructure. As the head of the support team, I'm responsible for our Red Hat Linux servers running our JBoss and Tomcat application servers. We support over fifty applications across multiple environments that support other IT Operations teams and allow their customers self-service capabilities to increase their time to market.

High Availability (HA)

Database Administrator

Jun 2008 – Jan 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos

I was a DBA for DB2 and IMS in the z/OS environment as well as administering MySQL databases in a Linux environment. We were responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of the environment as well as providing technical consultations to developers.

High Availability (HA)