diff --git a/charts/spark-operator-chart/README.md b/charts/spark-operator-chart/README.md
index 2314c82be..50c7cd840 100644
--- a/charts/spark-operator-chart/README.md
+++ b/charts/spark-operator-chart/README.md
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ All charts linted successfully
 | rbac.create | bool | `false` | **DEPRECATED** use `createRole` and `createClusterRole` |
 | rbac.createClusterRole | bool | `true` | Create and use RBAC `ClusterRole` resources |
 | rbac.createRole | bool | `true` | Create and use RBAC `Role` resources |
+| rbac.annotations | object | `{}` | Optional annotations for the spark rbac |
 | replicaCount | int | `1` | Desired number of pods, leaderElection will be enabled if this is greater than 1 |
 | resourceQuotaEnforcement.enable | bool | `false` | Whether to enable the ResourceQuota enforcement for SparkApplication resources. Requires the webhook to be enabled by setting `webhook.enable` to true. Ref: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/spark-on-k8s-operator/blob/master/docs/user-guide.md#enabling-resource-quota-enforcement. |
 | resources | object | `{}` | Pod resource requests and limits Note, that each job submission will spawn a JVM within the Spark Operator Pod using "/usr/local/openjdk-11/bin/java -Xmx128m". Kubernetes may kill these Java processes at will to enforce resource limits. When that happens, you will see the following error: 'failed to run spark-submit for SparkApplication [...]: signal: killed' - when this happens, you may want to increase memory limits. |
diff --git a/charts/spark-operator-chart/templates/rbac.yaml b/charts/spark-operator-chart/templates/rbac.yaml
index 6f5d97c0d..c78a73df9 100644
--- a/charts/spark-operator-chart/templates/rbac.yaml
+++ b/charts/spark-operator-chart/templates/rbac.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ metadata:
     "helm.sh/hook": pre-install, pre-upgrade
     "helm.sh/hook-delete-policy": hook-failed, before-hook-creation
     "helm.sh/hook-weight": "-10"
+{{- with .Values.rbac.annotations }}
+{{ toYaml . | indent 4 }}
+{{- end }}
   labels:
     {{- include "spark-operator.labels" . | nindent 4 }}
 rules:
diff --git a/charts/spark-operator-chart/values.yaml b/charts/spark-operator-chart/values.yaml
index c7d672f60..3436a8f75 100644
--- a/charts/spark-operator-chart/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/spark-operator-chart/values.yaml
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ rbac:
   createRole: true
   # -- Create and use RBAC `ClusterRole` resources
   createClusterRole: true
+  # -- Optional annotations for rbac
+  annotations: {}
 
 serviceAccounts:
   spark: