Internal Auditor II (Technology)
Seattle, OR - USA
Job Summary
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.
We are seeking an Internal Auditor II (Technology) to join our Internal Audit team. This role is ideal for a technology auditor who is naturally curious enjoys understanding how complex systems work and is motivated to dig deeper to identify emerging and nonobvious risks particularly in cybersecurity and cloudbased environments.
In this role you will support the execution of a riskaligned forwardlooking internal audit program focused on technology cybersecurity and digital risk. You will assess control design and effectiveness investigate how risks manifest in realworld scenarios and contribute insights that strengthen governance and resilience across the organization. The position offers broad exposure to modern technology domains while helping evolve Internal Audit into a strategic technologyenabled business partner.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Execute technology cybersecurity and digital risk audit engagements as part of a riskbased internal audit plan
- Perform audit fieldwork aligned to defined objectives while applying professional skepticism and curiosity to identify risks beyond standard audit procedures
- Assess the design and operating effectiveness of controls across technology domains including cloud infrastructure identity and access management network security application security logging and monitoring vulnerability management and incident response
- Go beyond checkthebox testing to understand how systems actually operate where controls may fail and how risk could evolve as the business and technology landscape change
- Conduct stakeholder interviews and walkthroughs to understand system architecture processes and risk tradeoffs
- Identify document and analyze audit observations including root causes and potential business or customer impact
- Prepare clear concise and wellsupported workpapers in accordance with Internal Audit standards and methodologies
- Contribute to audit reporting by summarizing findings insights and risk themes in a way that is meaningful to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Partner with technology security and business stakeholders to validate observations and support effective remediation
- Track audit issues and support followup activities to promote timely and sustainable risk mitigation
- Support Internal Audit activities beyond core audits including risk assessment audit planning advisory engagements and continuous improvement initiatives
- Stay current on emerging technology and cybersecurity risks threat trends and evolving industry practices
- Contribute to the ongoing modernization of the Internal Audit function through adoption of improved tools methodologies and ways of working
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Cybersecurity Engineering Business Accounting or a related field
- Minimum 2 years of experience in IT audit technology risk cybersecurity or related disciplines within a public accounting firm public company or technologyfocused organization
- Experience supporting audits or assessments of modern technology environments including IT general controls cybersecurity controls cloud platforms or SaaS operations
- Professional certifications preferred: CISA CISSP
- Other relevant certifications considered: CIA CPA CISM CCSP CRISC
Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
- Strong foundational understanding of internal control concepts and their application to technology and business processes
- Familiarity with industry frameworks such as NIST ISO 27001 COBIT SOC 2 and COSO
- Analytical mindset with the ability to ask insightful questions challenge assumptions and evaluate risk implications
- Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to continuously learn new technologies platforms and threat vectors
- Ability to connect technical risks to broader business operational and customer impact
- Strong documentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate work performed and communicate complex topics effectively
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic fastpaced environment
- High level of integrity professionalism and sound judgment
- Comfort operating in environments where risks are evolving and controls may still be maturing
- Exposure to cloud environments such as AWS Azure or GCP
- Familiarity with secure software development practices DevOps or DevSecOps pipelines
- Prior experience auditing or assessing cybersecurity programs or security operations
Travel Requirements:
This role requires the ability to travel up to25% of the time including international travel
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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: $63200.00 - $94800.00F5 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.
Please note that F5 only contacts candidates through F5 email address (ending with @) or auto email notification from Workday (ending with or @).
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 .
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About Company
F5 application services ensure that applications are always secure and perform the way they should—in any environment and on any device.