diff --git a/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml b/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
index 76e775f089..1ff1bd6e83 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/jenkins-cloud.yml
@@ -202,6 +202,10 @@
     tags:
      - config
 
+  - name: Give the user jenkins the ownership of the /var/lib/jenkins
+    file: path=/var/lib/jenkins/
+          owner=jenkins group=jenkins recurse=yes
+
   - name: add jenkins ssh priv key so it can connect to clients
     action: copy src="{{ private }}/files/jenkins/ssh/jenkins_master" dest=/var/tmp/jenkins_master_id_rsa mode=600 owner=jenkins group=jenkins
     tags: