diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3e02a1bc28b..ee9ed7e069d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add `-cassandra.num-connections` to allow increasing the number of TCP connections to each Cassandra server. #2666
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Use separate Cassandra clients and connections for reads and writes. #2666
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add `-cassandra.reconnect-interval` to allow specifying the reconnect interval to a Cassandra server that has been marked `DOWN` by the gocql driver. Also change the default value of the reconnect interval from `60s` to `1s`. #2687
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Experimental TSDB: Applied a jitter to the period bucket scans in order to better distribute bucket operations over the time and increase the probability of hitting the shared cache (if configured). #2693
 * [BUGFIX] Ruler: Ensure temporary rule files with special characters are properly mapped and cleaned up. #2506
 * [BUGFIX] Fixes #2411, Ensure requests are properly routed to the prometheus api embedded in the query if `-server.path-prefix` is set. #2372
 * [BUGFIX] Experimental TSDB: fixed chunk data corruption when querying back series using the experimental blocks storage. #2400
diff --git a/pkg/querier/blocks_scanner.go b/pkg/querier/blocks_scanner.go
index b52a2359f56..c98ce3dd23a 100644
--- a/pkg/querier/blocks_scanner.go
+++ b/pkg/querier/blocks_scanner.go
@@ -88,7 +88,10 @@ func NewBlocksScanner(cfg BlocksScannerConfig, bucketClient objstore.Bucket, log
 		prometheus.WrapRegistererWith(prometheus.Labels{"component": "querier"}, reg).MustRegister(d.fetchersMetrics)
 	}
 
-	d.Service = services.NewTimerService(cfg.ScanInterval, d.starting, d.scan, nil)
+	// Apply a jitter to the sync frequency in order to increase the probability
+	// of hitting the shared cache (if any).
+	scanInterval := util.DurationWithJitter(cfg.ScanInterval, 0.2)
+	d.Service = services.NewTimerService(scanInterval, d.starting, d.scan, nil)
 
 	return d
 }
diff --git a/pkg/storegateway/gateway.go b/pkg/storegateway/gateway.go
index 49609b0af81..8ce68c660a6 100644
--- a/pkg/storegateway/gateway.go
+++ b/pkg/storegateway/gateway.go
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/ring/kv"
 	cortex_tsdb "github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/storage/tsdb"
 	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/storegateway/storegatewaypb"
+	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util"
 	"github.com/cortexproject/cortex/pkg/util/services"
 )
 
@@ -226,12 +227,14 @@ func (g *StoreGateway) running(ctx context.Context) error {
 	var ringTickerChan <-chan time.Time
 	var ringLastState ring.ReplicationSet
 
-	syncTicker := time.NewTicker(g.storageCfg.BucketStore.SyncInterval)
+	// Apply a jitter to the sync frequency in order to increase the probability
+	// of hitting the shared cache (if any).
+	syncTicker := time.NewTicker(util.DurationWithJitter(g.storageCfg.BucketStore.SyncInterval, 0.2))
 	defer syncTicker.Stop()
 
 	if g.gatewayCfg.ShardingEnabled {
 		ringLastState, _ = g.ring.GetAll(ring.BlocksSync) // nolint:errcheck
-		ringTicker := time.NewTicker(g.gatewayCfg.ShardingRing.RingCheckPeriod)
+		ringTicker := time.NewTicker(util.DurationWithJitter(g.gatewayCfg.ShardingRing.RingCheckPeriod, 0.2))
 		defer ringTicker.Stop()
 		ringTickerChan = ringTicker.C
 	}
diff --git a/pkg/util/time.go b/pkg/util/time.go
index fc2b46a1f79..aeed6ab70d1 100644
--- a/pkg/util/time.go
+++ b/pkg/util/time.go
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package util
 
 import (
 	"math"
+	"math/rand"
 	"net/http"
 	"strconv"
 	"time"
@@ -34,3 +35,10 @@ func ParseTime(s string) (int64, error) {
 	}
 	return 0, httpgrpc.Errorf(http.StatusBadRequest, "cannot parse %q to a valid timestamp", s)
 }
+
+func DurationWithJitter(input time.Duration, variancePerc float64) time.Duration {
+	variance := int64(float64(input) * variancePerc)
+	jitter := rand.Int63n(variance*2) - variance
+
+	return input + time.Duration(jitter)
+}
diff --git a/pkg/util/time_test.go b/pkg/util/time_test.go
index 9899c4bdbb7..ba160145a34 100644
--- a/pkg/util/time_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/time_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
@@ -23,3 +24,13 @@ func TestTimeFromMillis(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestDurationWithJitter(t *testing.T) {
+	const numRuns = 1000
+
+	for i := 0; i < numRuns; i++ {
+		actual := DurationWithJitter(time.Minute, 0.5)
+		assert.GreaterOrEqual(t, int64(actual), int64(30*time.Second))
+		assert.LessOrEqual(t, int64(actual), int64(90*time.Second))
+	}
+}