Senior Director, Technical Audit Program

Overview

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.

This is a Seattle-based role to support close alignment with F5’s Engineering and Product leadership.

• Technology Audit Strategy — Define and drive the technology audit strategy aligned to enterprise risk priorities and F5’s product and platform roadmap.

• Technology Audit Strategy — Develop a forward-looking, multi-year audit plan reflecting hybrid, multi-cloud, SaaS, and AI-enabled environments.

• Technology Audit Strategy — 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.

• Technical Assurance — 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.

• Strategic Partnership — Provide timely, independent insights that support informed risk decisions without slowing innovation or delivery velocity.

• Strategic Partnership — 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.

• Internal Audit Modernization — Drive innovation to move beyond point-in-time reviews toward continuous risk intelligence for high-risk platforms, products, and initiatives.

• Internal Audit Modernization — 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.

• People Leadership — Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.

• People Leadership — 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.

• Operational Excellence — Monitor remediation of audit findings and assess the sustainability of corrective actions.

• Operational Excellence — Continuously improve audit methodology, execution discipline, and stakeholder experience.

• 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…