diff --git a/src/orchestrator.ts b/src/orchestrator.ts
index 4bef30990..163e60135 100644
--- a/src/orchestrator.ts
+++ b/src/orchestrator.ts
@@ -148,9 +148,12 @@ export async function start(
     await getChainSpecRaw(namespace, networkSpec.relaychain.defaultImage, chainName, chainSpecFullPath);
 
     // ensure chain raw is ok
-    const chainRawContent = require(chainSpecFullPath);
-    debug(`Chain name: ${chainRawContent.name}`);
-
+    try {
+      const chainRawContent = require(chainSpecFullPath);
+      debug(`Chain name: ${chainRawContent.name}`);
+    } catch(err) {
+      throw new Error(`Error: chain-spec raw file at ${chainSpecFullPath} is not a valid JSON`);
+    }
 
     // files to include in each node
     const filesToCopyToNodes = [
diff --git a/src/providers/k8s/chain-spec.ts b/src/providers/k8s/chain-spec.ts
index 7bb28bd12..3522286d2 100644
--- a/src/providers/k8s/chain-spec.ts
+++ b/src/providers/k8s/chain-spec.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-import { debug } from "console";
 import { genPodDef, getClient } from ".";
 import { DEFAULT_CHAIN_SPEC_PATH, TRANSFER_CONTAINER_NAME, FINISH_MAGIC_FILE, DEFAULT_CHAIN_SPEC_COMMAND, DEFAULT_CHAIN_SPEC_RAW_PATH } from "../../configManager";
 import { ComputedNetwork } from "../../types";
 import { createTempNodeDef, sleep, writeLocalJsonFile } from "../../utils";
+const debug = require("debug")("zombie::kube::chain-spec");
 
 import fs from "fs";
 
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ export async function getChainSpecRaw(namespace: string, image: string, chainNam
         }
     ]);
 
-    debug("copy raw chain spec file from pod");
+    debug("Getting the raw chain spec file from pod to the local environment.");
     await client.copyFileFromPod(
         podName,
         remoteChainSpecRawFullPath,
@@ -71,5 +71,27 @@ export async function getChainSpecRaw(namespace: string, image: string, chainNam
         podName
     );
 
+    // We had some issues where the `raw` file is empty
+    // let's add some extra checks here to ensure we are ok.
+    let isValid = false;
+    try {
+        let content = require(chainFullPath);
+        isValid = true;
+    } catch(_) {}
+
+    if(!isValid) {
+        try {
+            const result = await client.kubectl(["exec", podName, "--", "cat", remoteChainSpecRawFullPath]);
+            if(result.exitCode === 0 && result.stdout.length > 0) {
+                // TODO: remove this debug when we get this fixed.
+                debug(result.stdout);
+                fs.writeFileSync(chainFullPath, result.stdout);
+                isValid = true;
+            }
+        } catch(_){}
+    }
+
+    if(!isValid) throw new Error(`Invalid chain spec raw file generated.`);
+
     await client.putLocalMagicFile(podName, podName);
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/static-configs/job-svc-account.yaml b/static-configs/job-svc-account.yaml
index 8b901c443..3e1123a1c 100644
--- a/static-configs/job-svc-account.yaml
+++ b/static-configs/job-svc-account.yaml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ metadata:
 subjects:
   - kind: ServiceAccount
     name: zombie-internal-kubectl
-    namespace: zombie-561bd6264d4126d4b2631cfb2fabff84
+    namespace: "{{namespace}}"
 roleRef:
   kind: ClusterRole
   name: delete-podmonitors