IT Audit Manager

Tanium · Addison, TX (Hybrid); Bellevue, WA (Hybrid); Durham, NC (Hybrid); Emeryville, CA (Hybrid); Reston, VA (Hybrid)

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • $130,000 – $200,000
  • Posted 2026-08-14
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

The Basics:
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience leading audit and compliance programs across multiple frameworks and certifications. The IT Audit Manager builds and runs Tanium's audit program, leading a team of auditors, developing audit methodology, and driving remediation of control gaps. The IT Audit Manager works closely with leadership, external assessors, and stakeholders across the business to ensure Tanium's compliance program remains consistent, efficient, and audit-ready.

This is a hybrid position, which will require in person attendance several days each week in one of the following locations: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What you’ll do:

• Leads and supports expansion of Tanium’s audit program

• Develops and implements audit methodology, processes, and templates to drive a consistent, predictable, and repeatable audit program

• Leads and coaches a globally distributed team of auditors, assigning work, setting priorities, and monitoring progress through the audit lifecycle

• Identifies, tracks, and reports on critical audit KPIs to leadership, including budget-to-actuals, deficiencies, quality and accuracy, and program maturity

• Reviews audit reports for quality, ensuring findings and remediation recommendations are clear, accurate, and actionable

• Coordinates with external auditors and assessors on audit program logistics, information-sharing, and treatment of identified deficiencies

• Ensures plans of action and milestones are established for gaps identified during risk assessments, audits, and inspections

• Advises senior leadership on audit findings, control weaknesses, and risk mitigation approaches

• Monitors emerging technologies, laws, and regulations for their potential impact on the audit program

• Partners across departments and business units to implement the organization’s audit principles and programs

We’re looking for someone with:

• Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field, or equivalent experience

• Relevant certifications preferred such as CISSP, CISM. CISA, etc.

• Experience

• Extensive experience leading audit or compliance functions in a similar role

• Project management experience, including leading and organizing a team to complete work within a defined timeframe and budget

• Confident delegating tasks, and consistent in tracking and monitoring progress against milestones

• Knowledgeable in frameworks such as NIST SP 800 series, FISMA, ISO 27001

• Expert understanding of ISO 27000 series and SOC 2 Type II frameworks

• Exposure to a broad range of audits and frameworks, such as: UK CE, TISAX, ISO 27701, ISO 42001, IRAP, ISMAP, MTCS, NIS2, EU CRA, PCI-DSS, DORA, ENS, EU AI Act and GDPR

• Skilled in applying technical and program-management expertise to plan, track, and report on regulated program deliverables

• Experience tracking and driving remediation of control deficiencies and gaps identified internally and externally

• Extensive experience with audit program metrics and KPIs, and strong program/project management fundamentals

• Technical aptitude and a fundamental understanding of cloud infrastructure and SaaS technologies

• Experience managing a distributed, global team across varying time zones and geographies

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse, cross-functional team

About Tanium

Tanium is the Autonomous IT company. As Al accelerates both innovation and risk, Tanium Atlas, the company's autonomous operating system, puts the full depth of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform behind every IT and security operator - human and agentic. Tanium provides the real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and autonomous execution operators needed to detect, decide, and remediate at machine speed across their endpoint estate.

The company is recognized as a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Management Tools, as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Client Endpoint Management Software for Windows Device Management 2025-2026 Vendor Assessment, and as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™. Endpoint Management Platforms, Q2 2026.

To learn how Tanium delivers Autonomous IT for unstoppable business, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have op

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