Oracle New Zealand
Principal Engineer supporting enterprise infrastructure.
Auckland, New Zealand · Principal Engineer
Cloud architecture.
Automated infrastructure.
Reliability at scale.
I’m Abner Myloth. I work across Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Terraform, and enterprise Linux—helping enterprise customers provision infrastructure, investigate complex failures, and strengthen the systems their businesses depend on.
Understandable. Repeatable. Supportable.
Enterprise fleet operations
120 Linux and 55 Windows servers administered at Arvixe.
Repeat support tickets
Through validated fixes and practical operational runbooks.
Engineering focus
Built around the work that matters.
01 / CLOUD
Architecture & networking
Azure and OCI infrastructure, virtual networks, routing, load balancing, and the resources enterprise workloads depend on.
02 / AUTOMATE
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform provisioning and Ansible troubleshooting, with a focus on diagnosing drift and recovering failed deployments.
03 / OPERATE
Reliability & recovery
Enterprise Linux, container troubleshooting, escalation ownership, secure configuration, and clear recovery guidance.
Selected experience
Infrastructure work, explained.
Oracle · Professional experience
Azure & OCI infrastructure provisioning
Provisioning resources with Terraform and designing the network foundations that connect enterprise workloads.
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Recovering failed infrastructure deployments
Tracing Terraform and Ansible problems and helping customers return to a known-good state.
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Agility. Teamwork. Thinking ahead.
Badminton, cricket, and chess bring a different rhythm to the same curiosity about decisions, patterns, and performance.
Technical expertise
Deep systems knowledge.
Practical cloud engineering.
A connected skill set across provisioning, networking, operating systems, containers, and the operational work that keeps enterprise infrastructure supportable.
01 / CAPABILITY
Cloud platforms
Provisioning cloud resources and supporting their infrastructure dependencies.
02 / CAPABILITY
Infrastructure as Code
Repeatable provisioning and investigation of failed or drifted deployments.
03 / CAPABILITY
Containers & orchestration
Installation, configuration, and performance troubleshooting.
04 / CAPABILITY
Operating systems & scripting
Enterprise administration, patching, and production-system recovery.
05 / CAPABILITY
Security & networking
Network design, access controls, and secure configuration.
06 / CAPABILITY
Reliability & recovery
Owning difficult escalations and documenting practical recovery guidance.
Engineering approach
Clarity before complexity.
- 01
Understand
Start with constraints, dependencies, and the actual failure mode.
- 02
Design
Make infrastructure relationships and operational boundaries clear.
- 03
Automate
Prefer repeatable changes over undocumented manual steps.
- 04
Validate
Check behavior and the path back to a known-good state.
- 05
Document
Leave useful guidance for the people operating the system.
Portfolio & experience
Infrastructure work,
without the buzzwords.
Selected engineering scopes drawn from professional experience. Confidential customer details are excluded. The pipeline example is a reference design, not a claimed client engagement.
Career trajectory
Enterprise infrastructure, end to end.
DEC 2016 — PRESENT
Oracle New Zealand
Principal Engineer
Provision and support OCI and Azure infrastructure with Terraform. Design OCI networks, support Exadata and Oracle Database@Azure environments, and investigate infrastructure and container deployment problems.
Advise on access policies, hardening, and patching; escalate defects, validate fixes, and produce practical operational runbooks.
OCT 2009 — JUL 2015
Arvixe LLC · Remote
Senior Technical Support Executive
Administered 120 Linux and 55 Windows servers for global customers. Managed Level 3 escalations, migrations, security updates, backups, and disaster recovery.
Reported role-level outcomes: 98% customer satisfaction and a 40% reduction in downtime.
NOV 2006 — NOV 2009
Poornam Info Vision / Bobcares · Kochi
Senior Technical Support Executive
Provisioned and hardened production servers, handled VLAN and switch-port changes, and carried out migrations with minimal downtime.
Served as a Level 3 escalation point and led failed-server recovery using KVM console access and CDP backup agents.
Professional development
Credentials
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Professional
Oracle · Earned August 2023
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS · Earned December 2021
Microsoft Deployment and DevOps Certified
As listed in résumé · Grade achieved: 96.40%
Earned dates are supplied for context; current credential validity is not asserted.
Academic foundation
Education
Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology
Eastern Institute of Technology
Auckland, New Zealand · 2016Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
Maruthi Institute of Engineering and Technology
Tamil Nadu, India · 2005
Beyond engineering
Different games.
A familiar mindset.
Outside infrastructure, I enjoy the movement of badminton, the collective strategy of cricket, and the quiet concentration of chess.
Movement & precision
Badminton
Fast exchanges, deliberate placement, and adapting point by point. Badminton brings together competitive agility and tactical precision, alongside the coordination that keeps club play running smoothly.
Patience & teamwork
Cricket
Cricket rewards patience, strategic alignment, and a team-first perspective. Following international fixtures keeps me connected to a game where individual decisions matter most in the context of the side.
Patterns & foresight
Chess
Recognise patterns, test assumptions, and consider the consequences before committing. Thinking several moves ahead is useful both on a chessboard and when reasoning about infrastructure dependencies.
The connection
Move with purpose.
Understand the system.
Think beyond the next step.
Different environments, shared habits: pay attention, adapt, and make the next decision a considered one.
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Let’s talk
infrastructure.
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