Calling a function periodically in Scala while another expensive function is computing

I have a function that takes a long time to compute

def longFunc = {Thread.sleep(30000); true}

while this function is computing, I'd need to ping a server so it keeps waiting for the value of my function. But for the sake of the argument let's say I need to run the following function every 5 seconds while my longFunc is running

def shortFunc = println("pinging server! I am alive!")

To do this I have the following snippet and it works but I wonder if there is a better pattern for this scenario

import scala.concurrent.{Await, Future}
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import java.util.{Timer, TimerTask}
import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global

def shortFunc = println("pinging server! I am alive!")
def longFunc = {Thread.sleep(30000); true}

val funcFuture = Future{longFunc}

val timer = new Timer()
def pinger = new TimerTask {
        def run(): Unit = shortFunc
}

timer.schedule(pinger, 0L, 5000L) // ping the server every two minutes to say you are still working
val done = Await.result(funcFuture, 1 minutes)
pinger.cancel