diff --git a/handlers/restart_services.yml b/handlers/restart_services.yml
index 41094e7478..f1664f2d93 100644
--- a/handlers/restart_services.yml
+++ b/handlers/restart_services.yml
@@ -121,3 +121,6 @@
 
 - name: restart memcached
   service: name=memcached state=restarted
+
+- name: reload systemd
+  action: systemctl daemon-reload
diff --git a/roles/memcached/files/memcached-systemdoverride.conf b/roles/memcached/files/memcached-systemdoverride.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8a764e3478
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/memcached/files/memcached-systemdoverride.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[Service]
+Restart=always
diff --git a/roles/memcached/tasks/main.yml b/roles/memcached/tasks/main.yml
index a75007853c..5061107152 100644
--- a/roles/memcached/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/memcached/tasks/main.yml
@@ -19,3 +19,15 @@
   - service
   - config
   - memcached
+
+- name: make systemd override dir
+  file: state=directory path=/etc/systemd/system/memcached.d mode=0755 owner=root group=root
+  tags:
+  - memcached
+
+- name: make systemd override config
+  copy: src=memcached-systemdoverride.conf dest=/etc/systemd/system/memcached.d/
+  tags:
+  - memcached
+  notify:
+  - reload systemd