Infrastructure Business Operations Associate

The role

You will work within the Infrastructure Strategy department to turn complex infrastructure questions into analyses, recommendations, and operating processes. Your work covers capacity and supply planning, infrastructure budgets, procurement, deployment, product and deal economics, and cost management.

What you will do

• Build and maintain analyses for infrastructure budgets, forecasts, actuals, commitments, and variances.
• Support capacity, supply, and investment decisions with scenario models, unit economics, sensitivity analysis, and clear trade-offs.
• Analyze product and deal economics, including cost-to-serve, pricing scenarios, contribution margin, and operational drivers.
• Partner with Product, Finance, and commercial teams to evaluate strategic opportunities.
• Track major investments from demand and approval through procurement, manufacturing, deployment, and invoicing.
• Turn ambiguous stakeholder questions into structured workplans and decision-ready recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive materials, operating reviews, and written updates.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Planning, Engineering, Procurement, and operations teams to reconcile data.
• Improve recurring workflows using spreadsheets, SQL, AI tools, and lightweight automation.

Required qualifications

• Approximately 2-4 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategic finance, analytics, supply chain, or another quantitatively rigorous role.
• Strong structured problem-solving skills.
• Experience with, or strong interest in, product economics, deal modeling, cost allocation, pricing, or margin analysis.
• Comfort working with quantitative data in spreadsheets.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Strong project-management habits, attention to detail, and persistence to follow issues to resolution.
• Curiosity about internet infrastructure, hardware, AI Infrastructure, capacity planning, and economics.
• A practical approach to AI and automation.

Nice to have

• Experience with SQL, data visualization, or financial and operational modeling.
• Prior infrastructure experience.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform or other analytics databases.

Before you apply

• Applicants who progress to the offer stage may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.
• This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws.
• Any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

About the company

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties. The company is on a mission to help build a better Internet.