What are the exit opportunities for a tech auditor? Need to get out of audit as soon as possible. I really don’t want to get stuck here.
Also I’d like to start a family soon so I’m trying to raise my TC significantly (don’t we all)
Location: Dallas
TC: 75k
YOE: 2
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My exit plan was as follows:
1. Got CISSP
2. Found Info Sec position that is not technical
3. Got CCSP and AWS CSA
4. Learn Linux and Python as deeply as possible with a lot of hands on practice
5. Found first tech position with CACi
6. Just started with Oracle as SRE this week.
Total time took for transitioning: 2 years
My TC more than doubled: from 90 to ~190
1. Join public accounting
2. Move into tech clients and if possible move to San Jose or Austin
3. Get 3 years under belt , see if you can get Manager
4. Meanwhile get CISA, CISSP and progress technically if that’s what you like , else those basic certs should help .
5. If you really want to ease thru at a average pace , you will most likely get opportunity to join the internal audit of your clients — estimated 150k for no name and if it’s one of big techs 325k TC ( I just had an offer from FB for 385)
6. If that doesn’t work , then try to get into security compliance and that should have at-least 25% more than internal audit . From there you can slowly append your skills and move into security full fledged and after about 10-15 years there , you can start climbing the ladder to CISO which may or may not happen !
My Progression :
1. 2008 KPMG 60k TC NYC Advisory
2. 2010 70k Philly Audit
3. 2011 85k -115k Reno Security Audit
4. 2016 205k-311k Bay Area Security Compliance
5. 2020 425k Bay are Security Compliance
It audit manager , security compliance manager , auditor , security manager , cyber fraud operations , security product manager , blue team —- those all really shaped mg career ! Anyone from Intuit should be able to id me now :)
60->70
I had experience in college with databases and I did a few python colleges and did a GitHub project
Now after 8 months of experience I’m getting opportunities with TC from 90-110k
I’m currently in the logistics industry
But I want to be in:
E-commerce (amazon, grubhub )
Payment transactions (stripe/PayPal)
Media (Netflix )
Right now the future opportunities I have are in supply chain and e-commerce
Not sure where your experience lie but tech audit is a pigeon career and I felt the same as you needing to get out of it
I would say try doing Tech audit at like amazon and then try and transfer if you still stand tech audit
Or apply to smaller companies to just show that you got the skills in whatever you want to do and then apply to big companies after half a year