Alltech Consulting Services, Inc is looking for OPA / POLICY-AS-CODE ENGINEER | IT ARCHITECTURE (Jersey City) in Five Corners, NJ.
This local job opportunity with ID 3890393786 is live since 2026-10-15 04:31:27.
OPA / POLICY-AS-CODE ENGINEER — IT ARCHITECTURE Location: Jersey City, NJ — Hybrid, 2–3 Days/Week Engagement: 3–6 Month Contract-to-Hire Compensation: Highly Competitive Compensation, Based on Expertise ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly technical, hands-on OPA / Policy-as-Code Engineer to join a lean IT Architecture team supporting a major global financial-market infrastructure organization that clears and settles trillions of dollars in financial transactions every day. This role is part of a high-visibility Enterprise Backstage / Internal Developer Platform POC focused on building standardized Golden Paths for secure, governed, automated developer self-service. This is a POC WITH AN ENTERPRISE DESTINATION — successful patterns are intended to support broader enterprise adoption. THE CORE TEAM You will join a lean, highly technical team consisting of: • 3 Multi-Skilled Backstage Engineers • CI/CD Engineers • SRE / Observability Engineers • OPA / Policy-as-Code Engineer — this position Every engineer has meaningful ownership, visibility, and impact. WHAT YOU WILL DO • Develop production-quality OPA / Rego policies. • Implement policy enforcement, governance guardrails, and compliance validation within provisioning workflows. • Integrate OPA with Terraform, CI/CD/Jenkins, Backstage, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. • Help determine how Backstage and Golden Paths should integrate with and adhere to the CENTRALIZED ENTERPRISE OPA / POLICY-AS-CODE framework. • Translate governance, security, and compliance requirements into executable policies. • Support cloud governance, IAM, security guardrails, tagging standards, and policy-driven infrastructure automation. • Identify technical and architectural gaps, recommend solutions, and help implement them. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR • Strong production-level Open Policy Agent (OPA) experience • Strong Rego development experience • Policy-as-Code within CI/CD pipelines • OPA Terraform integration experience • Kubernetes / OpenShift • Jenkins / CI/CD • Cloud Governance, IAM, Security, and Compliance • Enterprise security patterns • Ability to translate governance requirements into executable Policy-as-Code STRONG PLUS • Conftest and/or OPA Gatekeeper • Backstage / Internal Developer Platform experience • Regulated-industry experience — Financial Services, Banking, FinTech, Healthcare, or Government • Experience translating NIST, SOC 2, or internal controls into Policy-as-Code WHO WE WANT Technical skills are essential, but they are NOT ENOUGH. We are looking for someone who is: • TECHNICALLY STRONG — deep, hands-on engineering capability • A PROBLEM SOLVER — brings solutions, not just problems • AN INITIATOR — does not wait for tickets or detailed instructions • A TEAM PLAYER — collaborates effectively across a lean engineering team • AN OWNER — takes responsibility through delivery • AN ARCHITECTURAL THINKER — builds for enterprise scale, not just the POC We want someone comfortable saying: “Here are the options, here are the trade-offs, and here is what I recommend — and I can help build it.” WHY THIS OPPORTUNITY This is a lean, high-visibility IT Architecture team where every engineer matters. Our guiding principle is: MAKE THE COMPLIANT PATH THE EASIEST PATH FOR THE DEVELOPER. Exceptional performers may be considered for full-time conversion, potentially around the Associate Director level, based on performance, demonstrated value, business need, and leadership approval. HIRING PROCESS Technical & Behavioral evaluation → Leadership discussion → Final selection/onboarding.5c143e31-5e48-4549-b638-05792d185386
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