diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/templates/default/slurm/resume_program.erb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/templates/default/slurm/resume_program.erb
index 252a47a619..5ca3957e25 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/templates/default/slurm/resume_program.erb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/templates/default/slurm/resume_program.erb
@@ -13,3 +13,5 @@ chgrp <%= node['cluster']['cluster_admin_slurm_share_group'] %> ${SLURM_RESUME_F
 chmod g+r ${SLURM_RESUME_FILE_TMP}
 
 sudo -u <%= node['cluster']['cluster_admin_user'] %> SLURM_RESUME_FILE=${SLURM_RESUME_FILE_TMP} <%= node_virtualenv_path %>/bin/slurm_resume  "$@"
+
+rm -f ${SLURM_RESUME_FILE_TMP}