Brian Long
Software Engineering Technical Leader at Cisco
Apex, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Long is a seasoned software engineering technical leader with 11+ years focused on building and operating high-scale, secure cloud and on-premise infrastructure for government and commercial environments. He specializes in AWS GovCloud and Azure Government architectures, hybrid connectivity, Terraform-based multi-account automation, and hardened AMI pipelines meeting NIST/FedRAMP/CMMC controls. Brian has a proven track record modernizing CI/CD and SRE practices—migrating and upgrading GitHub/GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Kubernetes while driving cloud cost optimization and vulnerability management. He’s led cross-functional infrastructure teams at Cisco, Socure, and Viasat, combining hands-on implementation with architectural leadership across data center, network, and cloud domains. Notably, he pairs deep systems-level skills (Linux, VMware, NetApp, Cisco UCS) with practical FinOps and compliance delivery, enabling secure, reusable Terraform modules and automated OS hardening pipelines. Based in Apex, NC, he’s known for translating rigorous government security requirements into repeatable, scalable infrastructure patterns.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Mississippi College
Spanish, English
Github Skills (62)
python10
graph10
terraform10
automation10
aws10
network-flow10
ansible10
infrastructure-as-code10
traffic10
devops10
ssh10
network-analysis9
terraform-cloud9
pcap9
network-configuration9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cisco/joy
Sep 2017 - Feb 2018
A package for capturing and analyzing network flow data and intraflow data, for network research, forensics, and security monitoring.
Contributions:10 commits, 23 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 months
analyzingcapturingnetwork-flowsecurityanalysis
ansible/ansible
Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Contributions:3 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 2 months
everythingpythonit-automationdevopsdeployment
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