Indian Navy provides excellent career opportunities in the field of IT. Personnel gain hands-on experience in operations, maintenance and administration of state-of-the art networks, IT infrastructure and advanced IT/InfoSec application. They are exposed to handling niche technology and R&D functions as part of standard growth profile. Naval IT setup is unique since it involves not only shore-based establishments but also afloat units, which require to maintain connectivity and synchronized operations. The charter of duties of IT officer includes the following: -

• Implementation of enterprise-wide networking and software development projects.
• Management of critical naval networks and software applications.
• Administration of ashore and afloat networks.
• Development activities with respect to cyber security products
• Administration of cyber security incident response and cyber forensics.