Sr. IT Auditor, Corporate Technology & Cybersecurity

This role leads day-to-day planning and fieldwork for assigned technology and cybersecurity audits, coordinating testing procedures and guiding other auditors to support evidence-based conclusions for Manager review. The position is focused on configuration testing and audit documentation across a range of security and technology programs.

Location and Work Arrangement

Santa Ana, CA (hybrid)

Compensation

• USD 97,700 - 130,300 per year
• Pay range is a reasonable estimate of base pay at the time of posting

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day planning and fieldwork for assigned audits, including walkthroughs, risk and control mapping, test procedures, sampling, work allocation, milestones, and status reporting.
• Partner with the Manager to refine audit objectives and scope.
• Identify dependencies, system boundaries, shared services, relevant regulations, and program components that could leave material risks unaddressed, and raise proposed scope changes promptly.
• Coordinate daily discussions with control owners, technical SMEs, and project stakeholders.
• Run walkthroughs, clarify evidence requests, resolve routine questions, and elevate sensitive or executive-level matters to the Manager.
• Guide Staff auditors on completing test procedures, collecting and validating evidence, documenting results, and following up on exceptions.
• Review workpapers for accuracy, traceability, and alignment to the approved test approach.
• Perform assigned audit procedures including process walkthroughs, control assessment, population validation, sample selection, evidence inspection, reperformance, and follow-up testing.
• Test controls across technology programs such as threat intelligence, security operations, incident response, endpoint and network security, data protection, penetration testing, application security, vulnerability and patch management, IAM, cloud, IT operations, change management, Secure SDLC, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Inspect security-technology configurations and supporting evidence, compare sampled settings and rules to approved baselines and requirements, and assess logging, monitoring, access, changes, encryption, certificates, and documented exceptions as applicable.
• Evaluate whether evidence is relevant, reliable, complete, and consistent with the control objective.
• Identify gaps, contradictory information, or scope limitations, and discuss them promptly with the Lead.
• Document procedures performed, evidence reviewed, sample details, results, exceptions, and conclusions in clear, traceable workpapers that meet Internal Audit quality standards.
• Support walkthroughs and client discussions by explaining evidence needs and testing questions professionally and following up on outstanding items.
• Analyze exceptions to understand cause, impact, extent, and potential compensating controls.
• Support development of observations and practical recommendations.
• Use data analysis, scripts, and audit tools to validate populations, identify anomalies, and improve testing coverage where appropriate.
• Assist with status updates, report content, issue validation, and examination support materials; incorporate review comments and maintain organized audit files.
• Maintain project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables, while keeping work on schedule and escalating resource or access constraints early.
• Draft audit findings, recommendations, management responses, and report sections; support issue validation and prepare organized, traceable documentation for quality review and examiner requests.
• Independently lead configuration-focused testing in the assigned specialty, including areas such as CyberArk/PAM, Active Directory architecture, firewalls, network security, and segmentation, or cloud security architecture/WAF, SIEM/XDR/SOAR, DLP, encryption/key management, or vulnerability evidence.

Required Qualifications

• At least 5 years of relevant IT audit, cybersecurity audit, technology risk, or related control experience, including coordinating audit fieldwork and guiding other auditors.
• Experience must include IT or cybersecurity operational audit work; general ITGC testing alone is not sufficient.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead configuration-focused audit testing in at least one area: (1) CyberArk/PAM, Active Directory architecture, firewalls, segmentation, or network security, or (2) cloud security architecture/WAF, SIEM/XDR/SOAR, DLP, encryption/key management, or vulnerability management.
• Experience with comparable tools is acceptable.
• Familiarity with official security guidance for Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, including Azure network security best practices, the AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar, and Google Cloud Well-Architected security guidance.
• Able to locate and apply relevant guidance during audit planning and configuration testing.
• Strong working knowledge of audit methodology, risk and control assessment, sampling, evidence evaluation, workpaper documentation, and issue development.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to manage assigned testing with limited day-to-day direction.

Relevant Technologies

CyberArk, PAM, Active Directory, SIEM, XDR, SOAR, DLP, Secure SDLC, WAF, IAM, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, AuditBoard, Power BI, ServiceNow, Jira, SailPoint, CTI, NIST CSF, NIST SP 800-series, GLBA, Interagency Guidelines, SWIFT CSP, PCI DSS, OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, PKI

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience testing controls in audits of Network Security, Security Operations, Data Security, Data Protection, Data Privacy, Offensive Security, or Vulnerability Management is strongly preferred.
• Banking or financial-services experience and exposure to GLBA, Interagency Guidelines, SWIFT CSP, PCI DSS, OWASP, CIS Benchmarks, NIST CSF, or NIST SP 800-series guidance are valued.
• Relevant IT or cybersecurity coursework, professional training, or hands-on experience is valued.
• Exposure to CTI, cloud service management (AWS, Azure, or GCP), or PKI and certificate management is a plus.
• Familiarity with AuditBoard, Power BI, ServiceNow, Jira, or SailPoint is helpful.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k
• PTO/paid sick leave
• Employee stock purchase plan

Criminal History Review (Conditional Offer)

First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, consistent with applicable state and local laws (for example, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act). First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. The company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with this role’s material job duties, potentially resulting in withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment, including handling confidential, proprietary, or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and meeting customer-imposed criminal history requirements.

Equal Opportunity

First American is an equal opportunity employer.

What We Offer

First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.