Technical Operations & Strategy Intern (Summer 2026)

Available Locations:Lisbon Portugal

About the Role

Are you passionate about the intersection of technology market strategy and business growth Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy tackling complex high-impact problems Cloudflare is looking for a driven and analytical Summer 2026 Technical Operations & Strategy Intern to join our team.

This is a unique opportunity to work alongside Cloudflares strategy leadership and gain hands-on experience in shaping the future direction of a global mission-driven company. You will contribute to projects that directly influence decision-making and Cloudflares cost basis.

What youll do

The Technical Operations & Strategy Intern will contribute to high-priority strategic initiatives across the company. While the exact projects will depend on Cloudflares internal priorities at the time of the internship potential areas of focus include:

• Infrastructure Expansion: Conducting market and provider assessments developing strategic options and contributing to the creation of a 3-year infrastructure strategy.
• Business Cases: Analyzing global spend basis for colocation and network and recommending actions to senior management.
• Automation: Enhancing our tooling forecasting and tracking with AI and other forms of intelligent automation.
• Market Intelligence: Deep diving into emerging competitive threats and market shifts within key Cloudflare supplier areas (e.g. AI/ML data center cloud) to produce actionable recommendations.
• Business Development: Finding and speaking to new infrastructure companies and creating new business relationships.

Must-Haves:

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate degree program in a relevant field (e.g. Business Liberal Arts Computer Science).
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills with a proven ability to structure complex problems conduct rigorous analysis and synthesize findings into clear concise and compelling narratives.
• Strong communication and presentation skills comfortable engaging with senior leaders and facilitating cross-functional discussions.
• A self-starter with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and a proactive approach to problem-solving; detail-oriented and organized.
• A passion for Cloudflares mission to help build a better Internet and a genuine interest in the underlying technologies (networking security edge computing AI).

Desirable Skills Knowledge and Experience:

• Self-starter who enjoys working in a fast-paced collaborative and innovative high-growth environment.
• Ability to commit to a full-time 12 week internship.
• In office 3-4 days a week in-office in Lisbon.
• Familiarity with infrastructure concepts (cross-connects circuits colocation vendors/sites) or interest in learning quickly.
• Ability to write or prompt (OpenCode etc) scripting and code
• API familiarity and ability to create persistent reliable data pipelines

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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