1. A method comprising: receiving, by a processing device, a job request to allocate one or more resources in a resource environment to a job, the job being related to an application, the job request specifying the job using a first description language; extracting one or more tags from the job request, the one or more tags describing at least one of a handling parameter of the job or a feature of the application, wherein the one or more tags are in a second description language different from the first description language, wherein the second description language is in a declarative tag format with language that describes the at least one of the handling parameter or the feature of the application without quantifying a specific quantity of resources to be used in the resource environment; translating the one or more tags into a resource requirement in a second format that can be processed by a job scheduler executing by the processing device, wherein the translating comprises using mapping information that maps the one or more tags into the resource requirement that can be processed by the job scheduler; and allocating, by the job scheduler, one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the resource requirement, wherein allocating one or more resources in the resource environment to the job in view of the one or more tags comprises: determining whether one or more tags indicate data for the job is secure data; instantiating a container for the job if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is not secure data; and instantiating a virtual machine for the job if one or more tags indicate that the data for the job is secure data.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more tags in the job request are selected from a set of tags defined by a system administrator of the resource environment.