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 (42)
python10
graph10
terraform10
automation10
network-flow10
ansible10
ssh10
monitoring9
network-configuration9
vnc-client9
security9
netscaler9
infrastructure-as-code9
custom-headers7
ansible-module7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brilong/unifi-protect-unvr-docker-arm64
Apr 2025 - May 2025
UniFi Protect UNVR Docker container for arm64
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
isovalent/terraform-aws-github-runner
Feb 2026 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 month
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