[reilly3000]

I am a fan of the term- after long naming wars internally we settled on promotion stage to signify the same concept. It is one or more targeted clusters that function as one of several environments. It works both in the sense of stage as venue and stage as phase. Teams promote their config from something like dev to QA to Preprod to Prod. Often there is a need for business logic to happen before advancing to another stage, or multiple environments in different regions that need to be healthy within a stage before promotion can happen.

Job doesn’t really encapsulate this at all. An alternative may be Metaenvironments.