diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-e2e.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
index 7c1b49b7530..518195b060f 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-e2e.yaml
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@
                 export PROJECT="k8s-e2e-gce-scalability-1-1"
                 export FAIL_ON_GCP_RESOURCE_LEAK="false"
                 # Override GCE defaults.
+                export KUBE_GCE_ZONE="us-east1-b"
                 export MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-4"
                 export NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-2"
                 export NODE_DISK_SIZE="50GB"