diff --git a/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh b/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
index c1ac1def4cb..2ea9ecf5418 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/gotest-dockerized.sh
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ set -o pipefail
 set -o xtrace
 
 export REPO_DIR=${REPO_DIR:-$(pwd)}
+export HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR=${WORKSPACE}/_artifacts
+mkdir -p "${HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR}"
 
 # Run the kubekins container, mapping in docker (so we can launch containers),
 # the repo directory, and the artifacts output directory.
@@ -42,5 +44,6 @@ docker run --rm=true \
   -e "KUBE_FORCE_VERIFY_CHECKS=${KUBE_FORCE_VERIFY_CHECKS:-}" \
   -e "KUBE_VERIFY_GIT_BRANCH=${KUBE_VERIFY_GIT_BRANCH:-}" \
   -e "REPO_DIR=${REPO_DIR}" \
+  -e "HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR=${HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR}" \
   -i gcr.io/google_containers/kubekins-test:0.9 \
   bash -c "cd kubernetes && ./hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh"
diff --git a/hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh b/hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh
index d4da6a2574e..d4642a33a39 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/test-dockerized.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ export KUBE_RACE=-race
 export KUBE_COVER="n"
 # Produce a JUnit-style XML test report for Jenkins.
 export KUBE_JUNIT_REPORT_DIR=${WORKSPACE}/artifacts
+export ARTIFACTS_DIR=${WORKSPACE}/artifacts
 # Save the verbose stdout as well.
 export KUBE_KEEP_VERBOSE_TEST_OUTPUT=y
 export KUBE_TIMEOUT='-timeout 300s'
diff --git a/hack/verify-jenkins-job-configs.sh b/hack/verify-jenkins-job-configs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..5a8025d0664
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hack/verify-jenkins-job-configs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Tests the Jenkins job configs and computes a diff of any changes when there
+# have been local changes of the configs.
+
+set -o errexit
+set -o nounset
+set -o pipefail
+
+KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+source "${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/lib/init.sh"
+
+readonly branch=${1:-${KUBE_VERIFY_GIT_BRANCH:-master}}
+if ! [[ ${KUBE_FORCE_VERIFY_CHECKS:-} =~ ^[yY]$ ]] && \
+  ! kube::util::has_changes_against_upstream_branch "${branch}" 'hack/jenkins/job-configs/'; then
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+# By using ARTIFACTS_DIR, we can write the diff out to the artifacts directory
+# (and then up to GCS) when running on Jenkins.
+export OUTPUT_DIR="${ARTIFACTS_DIR:+${ARTIFACTS_DIR}/jjb}"
+# When running inside Docker (e.g. on Jenkins) we'll need to reference the
+# host's artifacts directory for the Docker-in-Docker volume mount to work.
+export DOCKER_VOLUME_OUTPUT_DIR="${HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR:+${HOST_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/jjb}"
+
+# This script should pass, assuming the configs are not broken. Diffs won't
+# cause failures.
+"${KUBE_ROOT}/hack/jenkins/diff-job-config-patch.sh"