Simon Aquino

Skat is the Danish tax authority. I am the DevOps Lead on one of the largest European Deloitte projects to digitalise the Danish tax services and to provide citizens with a portal to manage property tax. The project is a joint effort between Deloitte Denmark and Deloitte UK. I am physically located in the Skat offices in Copenhagen.

I am the only DevOps Engineer part of the scrum development team. I work closely to the Full-Stack developers to architect, build and automate the infrastructure, hosting the Java-based microservices, manage the release process and deploying the support tools to analyse, monitor and provide connectivity to the internal platform. In addition to that, I also execute more reactive tasks, such as solving bugs and fixing security threats affecting the platform.

I am part of the core WebOps team working on the IT infrastructure that delivers digital tax services to the UK public, using Agile methodologies. I work both closely to the Dev and the support teams to provide solutions to infrastructure-related problems as well as to help expanding, developing and securing the tax platform. The Linux-based platform is designed to be fully multiactive and work across providers, such as Skyscape (VMware), Datacentred (Openstack), AWS and Microsoft Azure.