Senior Director, Technical Audit Program

F5 • Seattle, WA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive. F5 delivers and secures applications across hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and emerging AI-enabled environments where availability, resilience, security, and trust are core to customer value. The Senior Director, Technology Audit Program leads Internal Audit’s technology assurance strategy across product, platform, and enterprise technology domains. This role provides independent, risk-based assurance while operating as a strategic partner to Engineering, Product, and Security leadership—helping strengthen platform resilience, customer trust, and regulatory confidence. This is a Seattle-based role to support close alignment with F5’s Engineering and Product leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in technology audit, cybersecurity risk management, engineering assurance, or related disciplines within complex technology organizations
• Demonstrated understanding of modern SDLC, DevSecOps, and large-scale cloud and hybrid platforms, including where controls have passed and failed.
• Demonstrated ability to provide assurance over cybersecurity, platform resilience and availability, cloud and containerized environments, secure software delivery, third-party technology risk, and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled systems.
• Data-driven mindset with experience using analytics and control telemetry to move beyond point-in-time audits toward continuous risk insight.
• Proven people leader with 5+ years of people management experience, skilled at building, coaching, and developing high-performing future-ready technical teams.
• Strong executive communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex technical risk into clear, actionable insights.
• Track record of operational excellence, sound judgment grounded in a risk-based approach, and delivery aligned with IIA standards.
• Continuous learner who adapts quickly to evolving technologies and helps teams do the same.

Nice To Haves

• Professional certifications such as CISA, CIA, CISSP, CISM, or CCSP.
• Experience with cloud-native and containerized environments.
• Exposure to AI-enabled systems, automation, or advanced analytics.
• Familiarity with analytics or technical tools (e.g., SQL, Python, security or data platforms).
• Experience working in large, global, fast-paced technology organizations.

Responsibilities

• Technology Audit Strategy Define and drive the technology audit strategy aligned to enterprise risk priorities and F5’s product and platform roadmap. Develop a forward-looking, multi-year audit plan reflecting hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and AI-enabled environments. Present audit results, risk insights, and thematic trends to executive leadership and the Audit Committee.
• Technical Assurance Provide strategic oversight and direction for technology audits across: secure SDLC and DevSecOps; cloud, hybrid, and platform environments; containerized and orchestrated workloads; cybersecurity governance and operations; platform resilience availability, and incident response; and third-party technology risk. Ensure audit scope, methodologies and conclusions are risk based, reflect sound judgement and are grounded in the realities of modern engineering and product environments.
• Strategic Partnership Build trusted relationships with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Security leaders. Provide timely, independent insights that support informed risk decisions without slowing innovation or delivery velocity. Maintain audit independence while operating as a strategic partner to the business.
• Internal Audit Modernization Embed data-driven auditing, control telemetry, and continuous assurance concepts into the technology audit program. Drive innovation to move beyond point-in-time reviews toward continuous risk intelligence for high-risk platforms, products, and initiatives. Leverage analytics, automation, and AI to increase audit efficiency, insight, and coverage.
• People Leadership Lead, develop, and inspire a team of future-ready technology audit professionals. Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning. Coach team members to build skills in cloud, AI-related technology risk, and modern engineering practices.
• Operational Excellence Ensure audit projects are high quality, risk-focused, and delivered on time in alignment with IIA standards. Monitor remediation of audit findings and assess the sustainability of corrective actions. Continuously improve audit methodology, execution discipline, and stakeholder experience.

Benefits

• You may also be offered incentive compensation, bonus, restricted stock units, and benefits.
• More details about F5’s benefits can be found at the following link: https://www.f5.com/company/careers/benefits.
• F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed