diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
index 0e723cf3cdc..9a4756dad06 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
                 export KUBEMARK_TESTS="starting\s30\spods\sper\snode"
                 # Override defaults to be independent from GCE defaults and set kubemark parameters
                 export NUM_NODES="2"
+                export MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
                 export NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
                 export KUBE_GCE_ZONE="us-central1-f"
                 export KUBEMARK_MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-1"