diff --git a/roles/koji_builder/tasks/main.yml b/roles/koji_builder/tasks/main.yml
index d91c10e94d..d8498ec363 100644
--- a/roles/koji_builder/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/koji_builder/tasks/main.yml
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@
   when: ansible_architecture != 's390x' and ansible_architecture != 'ppc64le'
 
 - name: disable systemd-oomd we do not need or want it
-  service: name=systemd-oomd state=stopped enabled=no
+  systemd: name=systemd-oomd state=stopped enabled=no masked=true
   tags:
   - koji_builder
   - koji_builder/oomd