diff --git a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
index 8dfcc505be..44dfaedd10 100644
--- a/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
+++ b/hack/jenkins/job-configs/kubernetes-jenkins/kubernetes-kubemark.yaml
@@ -37,6 +37,22 @@
     name: kubernetes-kubemark
     provider-env: '{gce-provider-env}'
     suffix:
+        - '5-gce':
+            description: 'Run minimal Kubemark to make sure it is not broken.'
+            timeout: 30
+            cron-string: 'H/30 * * * *'
+            job-env: |
+                export E2E_NAME="kubemark-5"
+                export PROJECT="k8s-jenkins-kubemark"
+                export E2E_TEST="false"
+                export USE_KUBEMARK="true"
+                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 NODE_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
+                export KUBE_GCE_ZONE="us-east1-a"
+                export KUBEMARK_MASTER_SIZE="n1-standard-1"
+                export KUBEMARK_NUM_NODES="5"
         - 'gce':
             description: 'Run Kubemark test on a fake 100 node cluster to have a comparison to the real results from scalability suite.'
             timeout: 120