Senior Director, Technical Audit Program

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 Audits 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 leadershiphelping strengthen platform resilience customer trust and regulatory confidence.

This is a Seattle-based role to support close alignment with F5s Engineering and Product leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

Technology Audit Strategy

• Define and drive the technology audit strategy aligned to enterprise risk priorities and F5s 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.

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 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.

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 1020% 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.

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 F5s 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 F5s benefits can be found at the following link: F5 reserves the right to change or terminate any benefit plan without notice.

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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 .