Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.
We are seeking a hands-on DevOps professional who thrives on solving real-world problems to join our Software & Firmware Development team in Saskatoon. The DevOps Engineer should bring practical experience building CI/CD pipelines, supporting developer environments, and managing toolchains in production settings. If you enjoy enabling teams, streamlining workflows, and making complex systems reliable and repeatable, this role is for you.
Role Summary:
You’ll accelerate delivery for our software and embedded firmware teams by:
Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Enterprise.
Automating builds and tests for multi-repo projects.
Standardizing and maintaining IDEs and toolchains for developers.
Tracking and managing legacy project requirements for compilers and SDKs.
Assisting with development of regression and production tester tools for microcontroller-based products.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software and firmware projects.
Maintain automated builds, tests, and artifact storage.
Collaborate with firmware engineers to create systems that enforce software development best practices such as branching strategies and pull request automation.
Operate and secure self-hosted runners for specialized toolchains.
Maintain C/C++ and Python IDEs and toolchains (e.g., VS Code, MCUXpresso, IAR, arm-gcc) and create reproducible environments.
Own a Toolchain Compatibility Matrix for active and legacy projects.
Document and preserve legacy build systems; plan incremental upgrades.
Integrate quality gates, static analysis, and coverage reporting.
Provide onboarding guides and developer enablement support.
Collaborate on test automation (for both development and production support).
Leverage support tools such (e.g., Jira, GitHub, Azure Databases) to manage workflows, track issues, and support deployment infrastructure.
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field.
3+ years of professional experience in DevOps or build/release automation.
Proven experience with GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines or equivalent.
Strong scripting skills (Python, Powershell, .bat, Bash).
Proficiency with C/C++ build systems (CMake, Make) and artifact management.
- Experience maintaining developer IDEs/toolchains and managing version compatibility for embedded firmware environments.
Knowledge of environment reproducibility and containerization (Docker).
Preferred Qualifications
Embedded/firmware CI experience (cross-compilers, arm-none-eabi).
Familiarity with artifact management and versioning strategies.
Hardware-in-the-loop test orchestration.
IaC for runners and dev environments.
Static analysis tools and SBOM generation.
Experience with regression and production test systems.
Jira issue tracking management.
Littelfuse is an equal opportunity employer committed to empowering every associate to make a difference — everywhere, every day.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Paid time off and 11 holidays
$850 Lifestyle Spending Account
Lean Six Sigma certification and career development opportunities
Life, disability, and voluntary insurance options
Top Skills
What We Do
Littelfuse is an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. Across more than 15 countries, and with 17,000 global associates, we partner with customers to design and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. Serving over 100,000 end customers, our products are found in a variety of industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets—everywhere, every day. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Littelfuse was founded in 1927.
View our broad and deep product portfolio:
https://www.littelfuse.com/
Littelfuse has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring a diversified workforce through equal employment opportunities. Maintaining a diversified workforce is critical to the success of our organization.
Each associate receives equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex (with or without sexual conduct), marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, order of protection status, military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, genetic information, unfavorable discharge from military service, and any other protected class under federal, state or local law
