DevOps, SRE, production operations

Brian P. Morehead

Technologist building secure, resilient, and cost-efficient platforms across cloud and data center environments.

I help organizations modernize how technology is built, operated, secured, and improved. My work spans platform engineering, production reliability, cloud economics, AI-assisted delivery, incident response, and the leadership practices that keep teams moving with purpose.

01 AI-enabled engineering Copilot, Cursor AI, Codex, Bedrock, Gemini, Lovable
02 Cloud and data center AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, hybrid infrastructure
03 Security readiness SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, FedRAMP exposure
04 Operational mindset 24x7x365 production accountability
01

About Me

A lifelong technologist with a career centered on improving, securing, and scaling the systems businesses depend on.

I bring hands-on credibility and senior leadership across DevOps, SRE, IT, cloud operations, compliance readiness, infrastructure automation, incident response, and business continuity. I am strongest where technical depth, strategic execution, calm judgment, and persistent follow-through are all required.

I also know how to make AI useful in real operating environments: accelerating engineering workflows, helping teams reason through complex systems, and implementing cloud-scale AI capabilities without losing sight of reliability, governance, or cost.

Platform range Executive leadership and hands-on architecture across production operations, infrastructure automation, compliance readiness, incident response, and cloud spend discipline.
02

Selected Experience

Focused on my platform, cloud, operations, security, and leadership impact.

2024-2025

Director, Site Reliability Engineering

Juniper Square

Led distributed SRE teams across North America, expanded operations coverage, and advanced infrastructure as code, security posture, compliance readiness, incident management, and reliability measurement.

2020-2023

VP, Cloud Operations

Malwarebytes

Led cloud operations and site reliability teams supporting security products, release stability, business continuity, employee growth, scalable platforms, and secure cloud infrastructure.

2017-2020

VP, DevOps Engineering

Verizon Media / BlueJeans

Led DevOps teams across AWS operations, media-stack cloud buildouts, Kubernetes and EKS migrations, cloud networking, compliance, and cost efficiency initiatives.

2016-2017

DevOps Architect

GoPro

Designed and automated scalable AWS services for GoPro Plus, including logging, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and platform migration work.

2013-2016

DevOps Architect

Jobvite

Helped move production, staging, and development environments from data centers to AWS, then advanced delivery automation, disaster recovery, monitoring, support tools, and cost optimization.

03

Operating Focus

Modern platform leadership across reliability, automation, AI, security, and cost discipline.

AI

AI-enabled delivery

Practical use of GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, ChatGPT Codex, Lovable, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini, and related AI systems to improve engineering speed, documentation, operations, and cloud-scale implementation.

FinOps

Cost efficiency

Known for controlling operating costs through EDPs, PPAs, autoscaling, Spot Instances, Spot Fleets, Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, architectural changes, Spotinst.io, Cloudability, CloudZero, and careful platform design.

SRE

Reliability engineering

Incident management, severity processes, observability, on-call maturity, reliability KPIs, business continuity, and production systems designed for recovery.

Cloud

Cloud and infrastructure

Cloud and data center experience across AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle Cloud, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, networking, migration, and production operations.

Security

Security readiness

Security-minded platform work with exposure to SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, FedRAMP, change control, access patterns, audit readiness, and resilient operational practices.

Lead

Team leadership

Leadership for distributed teams, engineering managers, operational coverage, executive communication, delivery planning, mentorship, and sustainable team practices.

04

Skills and Keywords

A practical view of the tools, platforms, and disciplines I use to build and operate technology.

DevOps Leadership Site Reliability Engineering Cloud Operations AI-enabled Engineering AWS Bedrock Google Gemini ChatGPT Codex GitHub Copilot Cursor AI Lovable AWS GCP Azure Oracle Cloud Kubernetes / EKS Infrastructure as Code Incident Management Business Continuity Security Readiness FinOps Cost Optimization Spot Instances Savings Plans Reserved Instances
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Hands-on enough to understand the system, senior enough to shape the organization. Technology leadership with a builder's instincts.