By night, Sean Mitchell is the founder of School of SOC, a community platform dedicated to helping people break into cyber security through practical learning, mentorship, and real-world SOC analyst development. By day, he leads large-scale security operations across multidisciplinary teams spanning detection, engineering, automation, threat intelligence, and service transformation.
With a career built on SOC rebuilds, enterprise transformation, and global consulting, he has driven major operational change. from building SOCs from the ground up to modernising legacy environments through automation, engineering-led detection, and process redesign, delivering faster response, lower alert volumes, and more resilient operations.
He is known for cutting through hype and focusing on what actually works, blending deep technical understanding with operational leadership to build teams, platforms, and security services that scale in the real world.
Sean Mitchell
Associate Director, Cybersecurity Operations, School of SOC
