diff --git a/notebooks/scenarios/bigquery/job_helpers.py b/notebooks/scenarios/bigquery/job_helpers.py
index 3d83a4f05a6..804a218f962 100644
--- a/notebooks/scenarios/bigquery/job_helpers.py
+++ b/notebooks/scenarios/bigquery/job_helpers.py
@@ -321,6 +321,9 @@ def load_jobs(users, high_client, filepath="./jobs.json"):
         data = {}
     jobs_list = []
     for user in users:
+        if user.email not in data:
+            print(f"{user.email} missing from jobs")
+            continue
         user_jobs = data[user.email]
         for user_job in user_jobs:
             test_job = TestJob(**user_job)
diff --git a/scripts/reset_k8s.sh b/scripts/reset_k8s.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..d0d245be6f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/reset_k8s.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# WARNING: this will drop the 'app' database in your mongo-0 instance in the syft namespace
+echo $1
+
+# Dropping the database on mongo-0
+if [ -z $1 ]; then
+    MONGO_POD_NAME="mongo-0"
+else
+    MONGO_POD_NAME=$1
+fi
+
+DROPCMD="<<EOF
+use app;
+db.dropDatabase();
+EOF"
+
+FLUSH_COMMAND="mongosh -u root -p example $DROPCMD"
+echo "$FLUSH_COMMAND" | kubectl exec -i -n syft $MONGO_POD_NAME -- bash 2>&1
+
+# Resetting the backend pod
+BACKEND_POD=$(kubectl get pods -n syft -o jsonpath="{.items[*].metadata.name}" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -E ".*backend.*")
+if [ -n "$BACKEND_POD" ]; then
+    kubectl delete pod -n syft $BACKEND_POD
+    echo "Backend pod $BACKEND_POD has been deleted and will be restarted."
+else
+    echo "No backend pod found."
+fi
+
+# Deleting StatefulSets that end with -pool
+POOL_STATEFULSETS=$(kubectl get statefulsets -n syft -o jsonpath="{.items[*].metadata.name}" | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -E ".*-pool$")
+if [ -n "$POOL_STATEFULSETS" ]; then
+    for STATEFULSET in $POOL_STATEFULSETS; do
+        kubectl delete statefulset -n syft $STATEFULSET
+        echo "StatefulSet $STATEFULSET has been deleted."
+    done
+else
+    echo "No StatefulSets ending with '-pool' found."
+fi
+
+# wait for backend to come back up
+bash packages/grid/scripts/wait_for.sh service backend --namespace syft