DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer (OPA / Policy-as-Code Engineer)

Work Location: Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)

12+ Months Contract Duration

Need Locals & F2F interview.

Strong candidate : USC,GC,GCEAD,H4EAD

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY:

• Implement policy enforcement, governance guardrails, and compliance validation integrated into blueprint provisioning workflows. This role translates DTCC's regulatory requirements into executable code that runs at deploy time.
• Production OPA / Rego experience — not just tutorial-level
• Has integrated OPA with Terraform (e.g., Conftest, OPA Gatekeeper)
• Background in regulated industry: banking, healthcare, gov, fintech
• Can translate compliance language (SOC 2, NIST, internal control) into policy code.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Strong Open Policy Agent (OPA) experience
• Experience writing Rego policies
• Experience implementing Policy-as-Code in CI/CD pipelines
• Understanding of:
• Cloud governance
• Security guardrails
• Tagging standards
• Compliance controls
• Identity and access management
• Experience integrating OPA with:
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Backstage
• Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Strong understanding of enterprise security patterns
• Ability to translate governance requirements into executable policies
• Policy-driven infrastructure automation
• Compliance team writes rules in English; this engineer turns them into Rego.