Director, Solutions Engineering (SAP Hana performance)

We are looking for an SAP HANA Performance Team Leader to plan, execute, and validate the performance of SAP HANA on Nutanix AHV and AOS. This role is responsible for qualifying our software to meet SAP benchmark targets and certifying third-party OEM servers for inclusion in SAP’s certified hardware directory.

Nutanix's Solutions & Performance Engineering team is a globally distributed organization of architects, performance engineers, and industry specialists focused on validating, optimizing, and accelerating customer success across strategic workloads and industry ecosystems.

Manage a team of remote employees and subcontractors to benchmark SAP HANA and other SAP software components on bare-metal servers. Virtualize similar configurations on Nutanix AHV using the same hardware to identify and improve performance differences between virtualization and bare metal. Deploy and troubleshoot various SAP HANA configurations, and establish and document the Nutanix best practices for this workload. Identify new strategies and configurations to improve SAP HANA performance on new software versions and denser hardware specifications that expose performance issues in the platform software. Work with core engineering teams to troubleshoot performance issues impacting SAP HANA and determine root causes that can be corrected through code changes. Deploy new hardware infrastructure in the SAP Linux lab in Walldorf, Germany, and manage infrastructure dependencies. Build strong relationships at SAP Headquarters in Walldorf, Germany to gain support from key stakeholders. Align Nutanix strategic outcomes with SAP strategic outcomes and influence SAP stakeholders to support Nutanix goals. Guide teams in using SAP HANA test harness tools, including SAP validation and certification suites. Serve as a subject matter expert to support performance teams in qualifying and certifying our solution. Analyze results from SAP validation and certification suites, compare them to SAP's KPI thresholds, diagnose failures, and drive issues to root cause across the full stack. Provision, configure, and troubleshoot SAP HANA parameters, SLES/RHEL for SAP tuning, vCPU/NUMA topology, kernel scheduling, general storage topologies, virtual storage controllers, and network fabrics. Experience with automating hardware and software deployments, infrastructure as code, and APIs. Ability to explore how AI can be used to automate processes further using advanced AI models. Understand the impact of new CPU and memory innovations on SAP HANA workloads and how Nutanix AHV and AOS must evolve to achieve performance benchmarks close to bare metal. Understand both scale-up and scale-out HANA and other key architectures of the SAP HANA database. Assist in producing written artifacts including SAP Notes, best practice guides, test plans, and KPI result packages for SAP submissions. Develop sizing guidelines, configuration recommendations, and reference architectures for SAP HANA on Nutanix AHV/AOS. Help customers and Nutanix sellers on large deals involving SAP HANA. Work with hardware OEMs to enable them to achieve their own hardware validations for SAP HANA with Nutanix. Assist with Nutanix support escalations.

5+ years in SAP HANA infrastructure or general database performance engineering, with at least 2 years focused on virtualized HANA. Deep Linux OS experience Experience with Nutanix HCI Performance monitoring tools Hands-on experience running SAP HANA test harness validation and certification suites, interpreting KPI results, especially storage latency and throughput tests, and understanding the reasons for test failures. Working knowledge of SAP HANA, the SAP HANA hardware directory,