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.

Key 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 Dev Sec Ops; 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.

Required Qualifications:

• 15+ years of experience in technology audit, cybersecurity risk management, engineering assurance, or related disciplines within complex technology organizations

• Demonstrated understanding of modern SDLC, Dev Sec Ops, 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Travel Requirements:

Up to 10–20%, including occasional international travel.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.

The annual base pay for this position is: $193,600.00 - $290,400.00

F5 maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, geographic locations, and market conditions, as well as to reflect F5’s differing products, industries, and lines of business. The pay range referenced is as of the time of the job posting and is subject to change.

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.

Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @f5.com) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with f5.com or @myworkday.com).

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is the policy of F5 to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, sensory, physical, or mental disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, job assignment, compensation, promotion, benefits, training, discipline, and termination. F5 offers a variety of reasonable accommodations for candidates. Requesting an accommodation is completely voluntary. F5 will assess the need for accommodations in the application process separately from those that may be needed to perform the job. Request by contacting accommodations@f5.com.