diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e-gce-enormous-startup.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e-gce-enormous-startup.yaml
index f9c5e033be8..6f4297efafd 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e-gce-enormous-startup.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e-gce-enormous-startup.yaml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
             export NUM_NODES="1000"
             # Reduce logs verbosity
             export TEST_CLUSTER_LOG_LEVEL="--v=1"
+            export MAX_INSTANCES_PER_MIG="1000"
             # Increase resync period to simulate production
             export TEST_CLUSTER_RESYNC_PERIOD="--min-resync-period=12h"
             {post-env}
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
index eadd5307c52..e7a70b56fbe 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
@@ -507,6 +507,7 @@
         export EXIT_ON_WEAK_ERROR="false"
         # Reduce logs verbosity
         export TEST_CLUSTER_LOG_LEVEL="--v=1"
+        export MAX_INSTANCES_PER_MIG="1000"
         # Increase resync period to simulate production
         export TEST_CLUSTER_RESYNC_PERIOD="--min-resync-period=12h"
         # Increase delete collection parallelism