diff --git a/.github/workflows/jenkins-nightly-smoketest.yml b/.github/workflows/jenkins-nightly-smoketest.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 360399473..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/jenkins-nightly-smoketest.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-name: Jenkins Nightly Smoketest
-on:
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    # Runs "at minute 28 past every 0400 GMT from GitHub main branch"
-    - cron: '28 4 * * *'
-
-# cancel older, redundant runs of same workflow on same branch
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
-jobs:
-  jenkins-nightly-smoketest:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: POST Webhook to Jenkinstest
-    steps:
-      - name: Trigger Nightly Smoketest
-        uses: openziti/ziti-webhook-action@v2
-        if: ${{ env.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL != null }}
-        env:
-          ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-        with:
-          ziti-id: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_IDENTITY }}
-          webhook-url: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-          webhook-secret: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_SECRET }}
-          data: |
-            ziti-version=gh-nightly-${{ github.run_id }}
-            branch=release-next
-            nightly=true
-
-          # These were copied from the Jenkins nightly trigger job's cURL query params
-          # location=us-east-1    # not a valid build param in Jenkins
-          # deploy_branch=master  # master is default in Jenkins
-          # destroy_delay=0       # 0 is default in Jenkins
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/jenkins-smoketest.yml b/.github/workflows/jenkins-smoketest.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 76e3c47ce..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/jenkins-smoketest.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-name: Jenkins Smoketest
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      ziti-version:
-        description: 'Semantic Version from `ziti-ci -q get-current-version`'
-        type: string
-        required: true    # error if this workflow is called from main.yml and the ziti_version is missing
-  workflow_dispatch:
-    inputs:
-      ziti-version:
-        description: 'Semantic Version from `ziti-ci -q get-current-version`'
-        type: string
-        required: false   # this allows manually triggering the smoketest with the UNKNOWN version default
-
-jobs:
-  jenkins-smoketest:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    name: Jenkins On-Demand Smoketest
-    steps:
-      - name: debug ziti-version input
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          echo ziti-version=${{ inputs.ziti-version || github.event.inputs.ziti-version }} 
-      - name: Send Webhook to Jenkinstest
-        uses: openziti/ziti-webhook-action@v2
-        if: ${{ env.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL != null }}
-        env:
-          ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-        with:
-          ziti-id: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_IDENTITY }}
-          webhook-url: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_URL }}
-          webhook-secret: ${{ secrets.ZITI_JENKINS_WEBHOOK_SECRET }}
-          data: |
-            ziti-version=${{ inputs.ziti-version || github.event.inputs.ziti-version }}
-            branch=${{ github.head_ref || github.ref }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 99c752626..c6acaec43 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -501,20 +501,6 @@ jobs:
           JFROG_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.JFROG_API_KEY }}
           GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
 
-  jenkins-smoketest:
-    # BEGIN smoketest-job
-    #
-    # Any event that triggers this main workflow also triggers the smoketest
-    #
-    needs: publish
-    name: Call the On-Demand Smoketest Workflow
-    # not applicable to forks
-    if: github.repository_owner == 'openziti'
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/jenkins-smoketest.yml
-    secrets: inherit
-    with:
-      ziti-version: ${{ needs.publish.outputs.ZITI_VERSION }}
-
   call-publish-prerelease-docker-images:
     # - !cancelled() allows evaluating further conditional expressions even if
     #   needed jobs were skipped