Principal, GRC Automation, Cyber Risk

Principal, GRC Automation & Cyber Risk leading automation and cyber risk practices for F5's enterprise. Responsible for integrating GRC workflows and enabling cyber risk insights across the organization.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeSeattle • California, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $167,200 - $250,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and evolve end-to-end GRC automation across risk, compliance, policy, and issue management domains — including writing and maintaining Python-based automation scripts, services, and tools.
Integrate GRC workflows with source systems via RESTful APIs, webhooks, and event-driven integration patterns.
Architect and maintain a systems integration layer connecting GRC platforms to enterprise data sources, enabling real-time risk signal ingestion and automated control validation.
Partner with Cyber Risk leadership to operationalize quantitative and scenario-based risk analysis.
Engineer automated pipelines for ingesting threat, vulnerability, asset, and business context data.
Translate regulatory and framework requirements into automated, testable, and traceable controls.
Implement continuous control monitoring and evidence refresh to support ISO, SOX, SOC, and regulatory audits.
Design, build, and deploy Agentic automation solutions — autonomous AI-driven agents capable of reasoning across GRC data.
Own the end-to-end systems integration architecture connecting GRC platforms to security tools, cloud environments, HR systems, asset management, and third-party risk platforms.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Risk Management, or related field.
10+ years of experience across cybersecurity, risk management, GRC, or security architecture roles — with at least 3–5 years in a hands-on engineering or software development capacity.
Demonstrated Python programming proficiency applied to automation, data processing, tooling, or security use cases.
Proven API development and integration experience, including designing, building, and consuming APIs in enterprise environments.
Demonstrated systems integration experience, connecting GRC, security, cloud, or enterprise systems at scale.
Demonstrated experience automating or scaling GRC, risk, or compliance programs using enterprise platforms.
Strong experience partnering with cross-functional technical and business teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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. 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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonAPI developmentsystems integrationautomationdata processingGRC automationcontinuous control monitoringquantitative risk analysisevent-driven integrationcloud environments

Soft Skills

collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipcross-functional teamwork