Infrastructure Strategy & Operations Associate

Inested; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudflare seeks an early-career Infrastructure Business Operations Associate in Austin to turn complex infra questions into clear analyses and recommendations. You will work with the Infrastructure Strategy organization on budgets, capacity, procurement, and cost management.

You\'ll partner with Product, Finance, and other teams to model demand, architecture, and deal margins, turning ambiguity into structured plans and concise executive updates. A hands-on learner with curiosity fits well.

Qualifications

• Approximately 2-4 years of experience in management consulting, business operations, analytics, or a similar role.
• Strong problem-solving skills: break unclear questions into testable components and identify drivers.
• Interest in product economics, deal modeling, cost allocation, pricing, or margin analysis.
• Comfort with quantitative data in spreadsheets; willingness to learn SQL, data visualization, or modeling.
• Clear written and verbal communication for executive audiences.
• Strong project-management habits and attention to detail.
• Curiosity about internet infrastructure, AI infrastructure, capacity planning.
• Practical approach to AI and automation; balance speed with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• 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 drivers of profitability.
• Partner with Product, Finance, and commercial teams to evaluate opportunities and explain how demand, architecture, hardware, capacity, and contract assumptions affect deal margins.
• Track major investments from demand and approval through procurement, manufacturing, deployment, and invoicing; identify gaps, risks, and required follow-ups.
• Turn ambiguous stakeholder questions into structured work-plans, gather evidence across systems and teams, and develop decision-ready recommendations.
• Prepare concise executive materials and operating reviews that explain what changed, why it matters, and what decision is needed.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Planning, Engineering, Procurement, and operations teams to reconcile data and keep work moving.
• Improve recurring workflows using spreadsheets, SQL, AI tools, lightweight automation, and clear documentation.

Skills

Structured problem-solving

Deal modeling

Pricing scenarios

Quantitative data in spreadsheets

Clear communication

Project management

Curiosity about infrastructure

Tools

SQL

Data visualization

Financial/operational modeling

Job description

Cloudflare seeks an early-career Infrastructure Business Operations Associate in Austin to turn complex infra questions into clear analyses and recommendations. You will work with the Infrastructure Strategy organization on budgets, capacity, procurement, and cost management.

You\'ll partner with Product, Finance, and other teams to model demand, architecture, and deal margins, turning ambiguity into structured plans and concise executive updates. A hands-on learner with curiosity fits well.