diff --git a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
index 47bfcccfdf..9e1a3f29db 100644
--- a/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
+++ b/plugins/scaffolder-backend/src/scaffolder/actions/builtin/fetch/template.ts
@@ -21,22 +21,9 @@ import { ScmIntegrations } from '@backstage/integration';
 import { fetchContents } from './helpers';
 import { createTemplateAction } from '../../createTemplateAction';
 import globby from 'globby';
-import nunjucks from 'nunjucks';
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import { isBinaryFile } from 'isbinaryfile';
-
-/*
- * Maximise compatibility with Jinja (and therefore cookiecutter)
- * using nunjucks jinja compat mode. Since this method mutates
- * the global nunjucks instance, we can't enable this per-template,
- * or only for templates with cookiecutter compat enabled, so the
- * next best option is to explicitly enable it globally and allow
- * folks to rely on jinja compatibility behaviour in fetch:template
- * templates if they wish.
- *
- * cf. https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/api.html#installjinjacompat
- */
-nunjucks.installJinjaCompat();
+import { SecureTemplater } from '../../../../lib/templating/SecureTemplater';
 
 type CookieCompatInput = {
   copyWithoutRender?: string[];
@@ -60,6 +47,8 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
 }) {
   const { reader, integrations } = options;
 
+  const templater = new SecureTemplater();
+
   return createTemplateAction<FetchTemplateInput>({
     id: 'fetch:template',
     description:
@@ -113,6 +102,8 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
     async handler(ctx) {
       ctx.logger.info('Fetching template content from remote URL');
 
+      await templater.initializeIfNeeded();
+
       const workDir = await ctx.createTemporaryDirectory();
       const templateDir = resolvePath(workDir, 'template');
 
@@ -179,36 +170,6 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
         ).flat(),
       );
 
-      // Create a templater
-      const templater = nunjucks.configure({
-        ...(ctx.input.cookiecutterCompat
-          ? {}
-          : {
-              tags: {
-                // TODO(mtlewis/orkohunter): Document Why we are changing the literals? Not here, but on scaffolder docs. ADR?
-                variableStart: '${{',
-                variableEnd: '}}',
-              },
-            }),
-        // We don't want this builtin auto-escaping, since uses HTML escape sequences
-        // like `&quot;` - the correct way to escape strings in our case depends on
-        // the file type.
-        autoescape: false,
-      });
-
-      if (ctx.input.cookiecutterCompat) {
-        // The "jsonify" filter built into cookiecutter is common
-        // in fetch:cookiecutter templates, so when compat mode
-        // is enabled we alias the "dump" filter from nunjucks as
-        // jsonify. Dump accepts an optional `spaces` parameter
-        // which enables indented output, but when this parameter
-        // is not supplied it works identically to jsonify.
-        //
-        // cf. https://cookiecutter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/advanced/template_extensions.html?highlight=jsonify#jsonify-extension
-        // cf. https://mozilla.github.io/nunjucks/templating.html#dump
-        templater.addFilter('jsonify', templater.getFilter('dump'));
-      }
-
       // Cookiecutter prefixes all parameters in templates with
       // `cookiecutter.`. To replicate this, we wrap our parameters
       // in an object with a `cookiecutter` property when compat
@@ -238,7 +199,9 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
           renderFilename = renderContents = !nonTemplatedEntries.has(location);
         }
         if (renderFilename) {
-          localOutputPath = templater.renderString(localOutputPath, context);
+          localOutputPath = templater.render(localOutputPath, context, {
+            cookiecutterCompat: ctx.input.cookiecutterCompat,
+          });
         }
         const outputPath = resolvePath(outputDir, localOutputPath);
         // variables have been expanded to make an empty file name
@@ -275,7 +238,9 @@ export function createFetchTemplateAction(options: {
             await fs.outputFile(
               outputPath,
               renderContents
-                ? templater.renderString(inputFileContents, context)
+                ? templater.render(inputFileContents, context, {
+                    cookiecutterCompat: ctx.input.cookiecutterCompat,
+                  })
                 : inputFileContents,
               { mode: statsObj.mode },
             );