Aisha joined Jaguar Land Rover as a Site Reliability Engineer in the middle of the global pandemic. A year into her career in Manchester Digital Delivery Centre (DDC) team, she received her promotion to a senior engineer position. She passionately talked about the working culture here in Manchester, which is one of the many reasons she loves working for Jaguar Land Rover.
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Q: What position did you start in and what is your position now? Please describe your current responsibilities.
I joined Jaguar Land Rover almost 2 years ago, starting as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and I was promoted to the Senior SRE position after a year. Currently, I am planning and implementing our new Internal Developer Platform which will be used across the whole of Jaguar Land Rover as the one place to go to for onboarding people and projects including deploying a fully functioning application into the Cloud.
Q: Are you involved in any other projects / networks? If so, please describe what they are and what your contributions are.
Alongside my role, I led a workshop on ‘How to Argue Peacefully & Create a Safe Space within the workspace’. This is something that I am passionate about. I wanted to share what creating a safe positive environment looks like and how that can be achieved through simple yet effective day to day techniques/tools. The leadership team were extremely supportive with me planning and leading this session. It was a collaborative session, and it went down really well. I was asked to do a talk on this topic at the ‘Innovation Live’ event in Gaydon auditorium. It is a great place to work and also develop both my technical & soft skills.
Q: What do you like about working here?
I love the culture and how collaborative everyone is in the Manchester office. It makes it a great positive environment to work and grow in.
Q: What are your career aspirations? Do you feel that you get the necessary support from your management / department to help achieve your learning & development goal?
I would like to take more of a leadership role in the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) space. Ideally, I would like to lead a team to deliver the IDP as a great product for JLR.
Q: Describe your team / department, and what makes it stand out from our competition?
Our department is very collaborative team (no emails, just slack). Everyone is super friendly and always willing to help.
Q: Tell us some interesting facts about yourself.
- I love trying new crafts from knitting to candle making.
- I can play guitar although not picked it up in a while.
- As a child I had the opportunity to be an extra on Coronation Street.
Q: What hints and tips can you share with the potential candidates who are going through the application / interview process?
Show your willingness to learn. Tech moves fast and it is hard to keep up but if you can show you are learning the tools and trying to keep up that looks great as it shows you have a passion!
