diff --git a/.github/workflows/push.yml b/.github/workflows/push.yml
index c9fb5f5ba9..d5e57f75a9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/push.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/push.yml
@@ -87,3 +87,41 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           # Exit with status code 1 if there are differences (i.e. unformatted files)
           git diff --exit-code
+
+
+  docs_build:
+    name: build docusaurus
+    runs-on:
+      group: databrickslabs-protected-runner-group
+      labels: linux-ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+         node-version: 20
+         cache: yarn
+         cache-dependency-path: docs/ucx/yarn.lock # need to put the lockfile path explicitly
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: yarn install --frozen-lockfile
+      - name: build website
+        run: yarn build
+
+      - name: Install Python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          cache: 'pip'
+          cache-dependency-path: '**/pyproject.toml'
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.pyVersion }}
+
+      - name: Install hatch
+        run: pip install hatch==$HATCH_VERSION
+
+      - name: Install Docs
+        run: make docs-install
+
+      - name: Build Docs
+        run: make docs-build