The Ainslie Pantry cheese manager will be charged with ordering cheeses, cutting cheeses, presenting cheeses, controlling cheese supply and in-store cheese-tasting sessions.

Yep - the successful applicant gets to buy, taste and sell cheese for a living. Unbrielievable.

Ainslie IGA manager Kate Mihailakis said the popular shop had decided to install a purpose-built cheese-cutting room after a record-busting Christmas. Ideally, she said, the new cheese manager would have worked in a cheese room before, but she acknowledged that might not be an easy find.

"We'd like anyone who’s really passionate about food, ideally who has worked in a kitchen or has worked with food before, but I’m pretty happy to find someone who’s very passionate and eager to learn about it," Ms Mihailakis said.

"I’m really happy for the successful candidates to pretty much run their own race and work with myself and my husband and all of the managers here at Ainslie IGA to get the best possible outcome."

Ainslie IGA stocks cheeses from throughout Australia, France, Italy, America, Greece, Holland and Switzerland, having opened its beloved cheese cabinet in 2013.

The supermarket's most popular offering is the Vacherousse d'Argental, a soft cow's milk cheese from France.

Ms Mihailakis said "you'd be surprised" how much cheese went through the shop's doors.

“We have very, very little waste, which is quite phenomenal considering the amount of stuff we buy each week," she said.

"It just proves there’s a real demand and that our customers love it and that it’s going really, really well."

Canberrans who camembert their current job have been in luck lately: jobs advertised in the ACT in the past year include a miniature steam train driver at Cockington Green and, to the delight of tea-lovers nationwide, a professional tea drinker.

Applications for the Ainslie IGA cheese manager position will close when the right person puts their hand up, Ms Mihailakis said.